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NARCTIWVCdlleactKMI 
fiisii. nffftcsie On cnMm 
ywrli^tiai is to 9&Bk out and destroy 
flW Um pin 01 me MR BIG CDRPORAIWN - 
If you get that fv. 
}\mt law ti outwit lis enormiiii ariiiy of 
body ports,,, |ais of chaHsma-bypass 
fratlefTts In trandi coats, Hn txAst brain 
wmi the bum of a f*MnocsPos aiil tfes breattt ot a dung beetle, 
pacte of vicious canine yapples, the psychotic ctown Mtth hi 
evi sens£ of numoui* > you'll die, but not iaii|^*ig! Uten 
there's ttie sss guzzHng cadllac Jocfc - a cool sp&clmen, eitmw 
hangmo on the door fsl, a serious iooidrTg ptace m hrs h»nd 
and ready to blow you away as he rois down main street 
leaving you Dwighiog iead. It's not al badL.. You've sot a 
chdppir to back you ip, a mean, sMiy street machine, some 
heavy metal hardware and some pretty neat moves. And what 
aimit the idiig pin... did i say he was w. Big? No, he's MR Big! 

FORTH! 




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me naiigeroiis crsniRsls. 
ttOMw poMfSr sends 
you Meting Ovougli mm» 
teiTAu - hold the lie or pleunh the 
fields! It's TOUSHCR ^ the criminals wield some heavy 
hardware - bul so do youl You can shoot but you must 
dodge their flak... heavy gunfire, U'uclcs unloadng 
their cargo onto youf* bonnet... it's the meanest 
fiursuft game to hit the micro screen. 
The extra features wi leave you gasning for extended 
play weather changes, bodyguard squads, grenade 
MMii Hkars, giin'Choniers..plust play iti,.. we dare 
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rimrtstic vbMgIbc aM'a itvll^ array of weaporry al 
captured li nveiHily executed 9*afMct and a gni play that 
coraplnMnts ite swcess ol Qie year's top mwte. 

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ilfS SYSTEM ROMS 

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Ranzo Super Medler ...,„..-.„ Sea Abova 

32k RAMF^OM.... „. .See OpfjOSKs 

464 ISI disk driw ;DDI-1)i _„......„ £S4.35' 

indutJes adaptor . re-atJy to use 

FD1 3" B drive (464 & 61^]..^ „. .£SS.3S" 

3.S" B drive (464 * 6128) .-. ^....XTSJSS- 

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Prinlsr lead (Bft) „ ....ESjOQ 

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40 flMTCI14PE The tape version of 

Gf&itfkt 's cofjsote stvtifm is frw»/ 

42 SUPEHSKWEEK Better than Skweek? 

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43 WDJHEmMXThBfmousTV getsttm 

impulse- tr^atmenl 

46 TOTAL RECALL The fffni wss a Sionktr, 

and Ocean's ticence is toot 

50 SUPER MONACO QRAND PMX US 

Gold's rscing cuinop conversion 

51 TOYOTA CELfCA QT HAUY 

Gremlin's fallv &im is tricky! 

52 F*t6 COMBAT RLOT The best ttigN 

sfm e¥er. from Digital integrathr\? 
54 BAT Weirdo but exc^lfent - roi&f laying 
from Ubi Soft 



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mdiketwiih nmsoftwarei 

ta mn a mmmm a 24^in usnnmm 

Tally m222 is uohrgr^bs 

14 MAKE THE KEAPUNES! - PAR ' 

Designing pages in Stop Press 

22 FOAUM Three pages oitBcfmicafhetp 
horn resident $]tp^rt Adam Waring 

26 ASK ALEX Stuck on the basks? Aiex 

vmOmmisheretoheip 
30 KmiCflff/X New BASIC prugrBrnfrms' 

uMty under ttie micfcscope 

TO TYPEIMS Anotfm briifiant selection of 
type-it'Your$eff pfogrmis 

TG FIIEE FOR ALL Caroline Umtr's re^vfar 
update on the public domain &certe 

REGULARS 

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32 ON THE QRAPEViNf Pr&dator 2 news; 

ands apeCini compo... 

m CHEAT MODE Mors Cheats, tips, aoki- 
tions andpokas for the latest games 

W BALROQ The furry fiend's ntgular 
advenlure update 

75 HELPUHE Ask ovr rva<tm for help - it 
won't cost Y&u a penrty! 

79 REACTION Just a seieclion ot tbe hun- 

dr^-'cif o( i?Mpr5 wfl get a month 

64 SPEC4 AL OFFERS AA bargains you 

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WW is jam packed with games and demos, 
to tvhet your appetite! For starters we have 
a scnimmYfuUy playable level from 



HOW TO LOAD 
THE COVERTAPE 



Loading the programs couldn't 
be simpler I The first program 
on the A-«d« is ffredotor 2, 
ond if you simpty type RUN" 
(followed by RFTURN), thai will lood 
first. If you wont to pkiy How tobc a 
Complete Bostord, on the otfrer handj 
iu»t wind into the tope a couple of 
minulei and type RUN", os before. 
(The computer will then ignore any 
remaining <ode for Frwiotor 2 and 
only start loading when rt reacheii 
flow fo fa<e a Complete ffasfart/^) 
Altemativety, you can type 
RUN 'PREDATOR or RUN "BASTARD, 
and the computer will find the pro- 
grams automotically as yOu play tltft 
tope from the beginning. On ihe b- 
skte, the filenames you want are 
BIGGLJS, SW, IWUmR and D1SK.TFR. 

• If yott hove a disk drive connected 
to your mochitK yov'tl first have fo Jype 

iTAPf to switth ttte mochjjme fo tape 

hotSttg rother thon dhk hading. (The i is 

ebtoined by ptessing iHtJFT ond §./ Tlie 

computer ¥fiH had the next program* 



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Imagetvorks biggie Predator 2. Then we 
have the main course consisting of two 
COMPLETE games, followed by the AA 
Toolbox for desert. Yum yum! 

PREDATOR 2^ HOW TO BE 

COMPLETE BASTARD 



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Our eKcksive demo this momh is a mmpieie 
pJayable leva! from tmageworks' foitficomitig 
movie iJoenQe PietiaiorZ. 

The film is soon \a t>e seen in U115 countiy, 
and is ihe FoUowup to (he Arni« blAckbustei, 

The film m sei m 19^7. A bostOe drugs wax is 
Tflvajgtng Lds Anglea, and it's against this ase- 
nano that ;i:>ugh dty osp Hamgan has lo defeat 
the evil space-alien. 

you get Level Qne. 



Our first complete garoe this rocinUi is Bow to be 

a C0mp}0Ve Baismd from Vugin games (it's the 

game of the booh by Adnan Edrnxindson and 

Co,) You play Ade. who's visited a 

party, and gewreaUy 

has to be as 








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to do battle with the drug peddlais in 
4n effort to engineer a ceasefire so he can get on 
with the proper job of kjckin' alien a££. 

You have lo ^m down l^e baddies as the 
level sciolls from light t« left. Move your sights 
over thenj and press Fire to mow ihejii down 
with your machine gim. Cai^M, thcwgh - ihe^f 
shoot badc^ It's not possible to dodge then fije„ 
90 v<^'U have to shoot them down before 






unpleasant • **u^* ''^'Wt' 

and obflonous as pos- 
sible. The aip ig to get all the 
Other {Invited) guests to leave. 

This is done by doing bastardly pranks. 
These light up letters from the phrase 'Complete 
Bastard' at the bottom of the screen. All sixtean 
letters must be lit in OTder u; win 

There are four scales which vary aocordmg 
to your acUons. The Drunlsometei mirroTS the 
ansouJit of alcohol you've had to drink. 
Some bastatdly activi- 







^"•tiS.r^^-^cs^ij^ 



m y, 



'*^**n;,it::v* 



y«w 



Also on screen 
you'll see the occaisional magazine 
caimtllge to tiop up youi ammo supply, and 

uprated guns to increase your fiiepower. Simply 
shooi these to add them to youi aiseoal 

• Predatoi 2 Controls 
Q/up Sights up 
A/down Sights dovni 
Q/lefl Eights left 
P/fighi Sights right 
Space/ftre Fire 



• *•• lor b»*** . M w *••'«'*■ 

ties can only be earned out wh&n 
you're well plastered, while others require a far 
more sober apptoadL 

The Weeeometer is also increased by dhnlc- 
iag, When it reach^ the top you'd better gO 
pretty shaipifih - preferably before scmecne 
else gets id there and locks th«^ dooi. (Though 
yomU (10 doMbt find other places us go.} 

Youi Fanonojeiter increases acoordiDg to the 
aEODunt of {^ood you eat. You can save up fart 
power to let off a teal tiouser ripper. UToui 
SmeUometer should be kept as high as possjiile 
too. Faitmg is one good way of doing this. 

To carry out the precJis, you'll need to seafcb 
evenrthing for suitable objects. To search, get 



JkMSTRAD ACTIOM May 1991 



COVERTA 



(Aoae to an Item of furniture and tum to face U, 

Continue to push In that direcdon and press 
SeidCt, Up and Down highlights xhe options 

available to you, 

Talk to the party guests in a suinijar way, 

You must maneouTiie yourself towards thepa and 
then press Select A suoessful encounter will' 
reveal their name and your possible options, 

The game is viewed using 'Basiavision'. The 
screen is spht into two vjawpoints. The top 
screen is the main window, and Ade moves 
aiound acoordmg to the joystick/lieyboafd. The 
Bottom wmdow can be set to view from any 
mdependent angle. It taliieG a wee bit of getting 
used to, hut onoe you've got the hang of it. it's 
extremely useful for krung yourself up with 
doors and objects and so on. 
• Complete Bastard controls 
Q/up Up 
A/down Down 
O/l&fl Left 
P/right Right 
$pace/fiie Select 
F Fart 

t Rotate view m top window 

Z RotatS! view in bottom window 

Gi^Enter Qtut 

BIGGIES ^ 

It's up, up and away with the complete game 
BiggfBS fiom Mnrorsottl (Ii's actually licenosd 
from the mid-'eos film rather than the Gapt. W.E. 
Johns books.) 

Biggies, along with chum AVgy, has found 
himsel! in a spot of bother. Seems the enemy 
have developed i^me son of secret 
weapon, and are threat- 
ening 









theworldwithit. "■'w^*^. 

The first three sections of the game see 
the two pals going for the secret weapon. There 
are three ways to get to this; flying through the 
air in the old tate, leaping from rooftop to rooftop 
or crawJing through war-torn Europe. Suceed. 
and you can play the fourth part ^a sepaiaie 
load) where you have to get the secret weapOfli 
bac]£ to base again. (You can play without com- 
pletaing the first part, but it's harder). 

• Biggies Comrols 

Use a joys^ici^ 



, Shoot th*^^,^«C«-^« 




Tape Trouble? 



We hope Uui youi cqivertape will k»d fiicl 
tim« However, havui^ wofked witb ooniput 
ers loT as long as w^ bave. we ktiovt that 
things don t always go like clockwork If you 
bave problems loading the lape. try Uw (ol^ 
lowing 

• Try loactiog at several diffeieni wlgine 

\0W\s 11 you're using an external tapere- 
colder Computers can be ««Ty fussy 
ahs\ii Ui« voiuflM tbev will lotd «t 

• Clean the tape beads This can be done 

witb any comnierclally available dean- 
inig kit, Altemattvtly, ui9 a ccMSom bad 
naked in alcoliol Gently njb tbe surface 
^ tbe beads and pmch roller io remove 
Lbat iiytt of acctEmalaied girime. 

• Ad}uat tiM caaaettc reoonief'a bead tUtoa 

mem. Tte aligiimeni sa«w li taaxiea 



TOOLBOX 



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What's them funnv oodes in Type-fhsand Cheai 
Mode lor. then? Yoti know, the strange four 
letter codes in the (stiuigglv brairketsl at the 
siait of each line? Thavs the question on 
people's lips tbiougbout the oounoy 

Actually, these codes are taiber use- 
ful. They'is not Tor typing in, though. 
Instead, they're checksums, desigr.e^t 
to help you ensure that you've typKl 
in progiaiBs wn ealy , 

When we print hstings, we run them 
through a special program that produces the 
codes The codes aie woilted out from a oorabi* 
nation of all the clmracters in a program line, 
and ate unique for each Urte. However, the same 
seciuence of characters will always produce the 
same checksum, so if a line is mis-typed, the 
' :■ tksum displayed on youi computer wiU differ 
: ::l the version printed m the magazine. 

So. wouldn't it be j^ust wonderful if you had 
the same program thai we use? Then, when you 
ijad an erroi in your picgiara, «U you'd have lo 
do is check that the codes ajre identical. Much 
easier than pain^talungly going through ever^ 




liist to the left ol thrft tap* bead, and is 
ustially actenlble ttaitmgli a amall bote 
Rotate it a fraction at a time with a lew- 
fillers BcrewdfiVDi When itw ciiapest 
•OQSd ia twud, the aiigiuneiii is spot on 
• SDm«tiin<« tlie tape tpools can (am or 
stick at a critical moment. Chedk tbe 
spools in youi ca»etbe rotate Fieely. if 
Ewoaswuv Qtvuig tbe eutag a sUgbt t«|^ 
•galntt a tairit ediri^ f lift lA make sat«. If , 
aftet liyiAs tte all ollbe above, you allll 
can't get the tape to load then you csin 
mttm It for a leplacement Send tiie 
tap«, ateng wf tb an SA£ to: 

Amdl9 VMw IM, f«af«»wf, 

Hmtmmtmrd 14, Tmfhfrd, BhntpMhir* 

TTT €QD. 



single character on the line . . 

Well now youi wildest dreams have oome 
true' This wonderful program is yours, and you 
don't even have to type it inl (Because it oomes 
on the oovertape, silly.) 

It works by generating the ood« each 
iims the Return ke^ is pressed, fi's 
a machine code program, and 
hides itself avfay once ite been 
run. When you've loaded and run 
Typenghtef. it's |ust as welt to type 
NEW to dear the BASIC area. {Once 
Type-TJghteT has been initialised^ it 
doesn't need the BASIC program,} 
Now ]ust type in a listing from 
Amsu&d Actjon. Every time you ENT01 a line, 
the checkHimi wiU be printed tmrnediately fol- 
lowing the end of that line. {Vie print them at 
the start of each line for clarity, ] Ma^e sure they 
mattSi. B the don't, you've made a mistake! 

Tf you prefer, you can check the listing aftei 
It's been typed m. Just type LIST, and the codes 
will appear at the end of each line. If you have a 
prinier oonneaed you can prini out the listing , 
poiaplete with checksums hy typing. LIST ^S. 

May you never be tiouhled by SYNTAX 
ERRORS again!' 



But I've got a disk drive«*« 



Di^ drive uniB will m dOubt be boiritied at 
the prospect of loadirig the prognsia from 
cassette ever tune they want to tise Uwrn* 
Well feaj not At the end of the tape is a ape- 
dal little program thai' II transfer alt cbe 
programs from tape onto disk. 

It's the last program on side B of the cas- 
i(«tle, called DISKTFR. Just run it as you 
would a normal pTogram, wind the tape to 
the begumiag, and it'll transfer all the pro- 
gfoms automatically (when you reach the 
and of side one, you'll have to luni the caa- 
Mtte and dJah over - there's not erjougb 
n»m fof ali the progiams on one side of a 
disk). 

tf you'ra using an ext^nal ca»etle 
mcoider, tben coDDflCt the RE:m lach to the 

' aockei if time is one. The oomputn 



wiD stop aAd start the tape seireral tiine« as 
It transfers the files across If you don't have 
a REM socket on youi cassette recordet then 
youll have lo be careful to pause the tape in 
the right places Pause it when ibo red disk 
drive light cooii^ on: this indicates disk 
access. 

Once everything has been liansfeTred, 
the disk will be full of (ties. The programs 
can be run by typing the following: 



Predator 2 
How to be o,,. 



RUN^PREDATOR 

RUN''BASIAft)> 

RUN-'BtOOUS 



BJgglej (port 2} RUN-SW 
typ«-ri9ht9r eUN'TW 

- ' Irantbj' RUN "CHS 



May 1 991 A MS THA D ACTtGti 



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ARNOR IS BACK WITH NEW SOFTWARE 

Hew print utilily joins bost-selllng ProfBMf suite os Amor roports Increastrtg sole* 



Amor, publishet of the excellBnt word 
pr(>oesg4:ir Protext. is rfltuimng to CPC 
d€iVe[0ip1i)enl with a brand new product, 
CaUed Piolype, it s a pnnC enhanoei designed to 
be used with standard Epson-compatible print- 
ers, and promise; to transform printed output 
with a wtioie range of f(?atu:es which include 
seven different fonls and special characters and 
accents foi over forty langruages! 
th^ program has apparontiy been seiferal years 
in the nudong, and its fuU list of specs is as fol- 
lows: 

# Seven fonts with suhscripl, superscitpt 
underline. boK, encirde, mirror images 



• 




# ArTHtr'* lormidlabl^ Protamt imtniiy ia voon to bo- fainad l^y 



Right justified proportional printing wfth 

any combination of font^, kerning 

Tabulated proportion^] t^Kt 

Line graphics 

M extra characters 

on-eueen including accented 

letters, accent keys defined 
t MuJuple accents on any 

iettet 

Although Protype fits neatly into the Aiotext 
family, it will m fact worh with other word pro- 
cessors and programs, even BASIC! 

Piof^ie's anival oomes at a ttme when many^ 
pubL&heis are having seoorvd thoughts about 

remaining in the 3-hit filSd, and 

is great news for Amstrad own- 
ers dedicated lo using their 
machines for anything other than 
games. 

However, although Protype 
is evidence of Arnor's continuing 
oomniitment to the CPC tange, 
the company explains that the 
timing of its release was due sim- 
ply to the fact that the product 
liad reacbad completion rather 
than forming part of a grander 
marketing strategy. Amor ia nev- 
ertheless reporting a boost in 
f jotejfi sales irom kst autiunn, 
which tnay be a result of 
Amstrads relauiwdi of the CPC 
raiige. 



SD Micro Systems goes on 
the offensive 



Hitehm-based SD Microsystems is launching a 
" Spring Software Otfenssve" with no fewer 
than hve nevtr products, 

• Picture Disc contains over 400 pieces of 
cltp-an which can be used with the company's 
desktop publishing program Page PublisU^i, 
The pictures are converted from American 
piablic domain soiirces. Pilars Disc wsts 
El 2-50 

• Home Finance lets you carry out aU your 
household budgeting with a oumpiehensive 
range of accounting features. The program 
was first released a while ago, but has until 
now been difficult to olitain. due the pio- 
ducer's difficulty in rnarKeting a single product 
effectively. Korae Finance is £14.95. 

• DiscBase is a powerful: dish file organiser. 



and is another program which had fallen by 
the wayside until picked up by SD 
MiCT{:eystems. DiscBsse is^ C12.&0 
•f Gmph'tiaster is a brand new product 
which lets you produce graphs in any of ten 
different styles, induding histogiams. pte 
charts, bar graphs and more, Fiice is £14.95, 
• The fifth program is a handy disk utility 
tJiat carries out all the usual 
list'run/print/'erase commands, but all witli 
single keypresses. There is also an un-erase 
option Be^t news of aU is that this program is 
oompleteiy free, and is being gitren away with 
all software order 

SD Microsystems also offers a range of 
other bits and pieces for Amstrad owners Foi 
more Information, call 04&2 422897 



^COLOUR 
" FOR PRINTERS 

Printer maJter Citisen is to give away colour 
printing kits with three of its printers 

The models involved are the Citizen SwjH 9. 
Swift 24 and Swift 24x Each wlU accept aJ3 
QiptJDnal 'colour kit' tnctui^g a user uifitallable 
colour ribbon and motor. These kits usually sell 
for £3M1, but Citizen is gomg to be giving 
them away as part ot a 'major initiative to pro- 
mote the benefits ol colour printing ". The offer - 
"Citizfln Ejctra" ~ will run for a lirrjted time only, 
expuing at the tbe of May. 




• CitliBH i» oM*f1ng ■ ai»*«tai d*a1 with Mwh 
ot It! pfint*r«. Fdt • tlmllM} 1lm«, th« CMn^any 
will llwow In ■ -fittlMjr hif 



The Swift 3 is an 80 oolunm &pui Epson and 
IBM-compatible prmter which runs at iSOcps m 
draft mode and 40cp5 m NLQ. tt has four biult-io 
fonts and a push/pull tractor feed The Swift 24 
and 24x are both 24 pm machines, the secon<l 
being a wide-camage version. They can print at 
up to 192cp5 in draft mode, are IBM. NEC and 
Epson-compatible and have five builtin fonts, 

News of the colour kit offer foUows hard on 
the heels ot a prtoe reduction on the entry level 
24-pijTi 124D model last inonth. The Swift 9 cui- 
rently retails at £239. the Swift 134 at C36& and 
the I24x at £439 To find out more, call Citizen 
on 0895 72621 

Meanwhile Star has amiounoed a series of 
price cuts affecting its ' Professional ' series of 
highly-specified, heavy-duty dot- matrix printers. 
The 9-Pin FF-10 drops £60 from £459 to £399. 
while Uie FR1& wide-cainage version drops 
£100 to 499. The 24 pin KBZ4\0 drops from 
£599 to £499. while the wide-carriage Xa24-15 
drops a massive £^190 to tb9$, 

At the same time. Star is also offering a 
"drop-in" colour kit plus nbbon worth £39 with 
the FR-IO and XB24-10, free, in ai desaJ which 
competes directly wrjth Citizens cunent offer. 
Star Micionics is on 0494 471111. 



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AMS Tn/kO ACTMON May 1 991 



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RAIME TO BACK CK 



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Software house Palace has 
bean sold by its psisni 
company, the PaJace film 
and video organisation, to French 
company Leisme' Holding. Leisure 
Holding also owns French softWfir" 
house Titus, ttiough any Hind 'A 
m&rger bstween the two is being 
mled ml. 

Deapite the sale, no immediate 
changes m the oornpany si 
pJEumed. It will stay at its cuiient 
base and oontinua to be ruxi by 
managing director Pete Stons. 

Palace has been responsible for 
such Amstiad classics as Barbarian 
I and n and, more racentty, the 
excellent Intemationai 3Z> Tennis. 
Head of the PaJace group, Chris 
Graib, is fatalistic a]»ut the deal: "HaviDg- nur- 
tured the software division over the years we 
wiU be sad to see it go. However we were 
impreased by Leisure Holding's organisation, 
aaivities plans and enthusiasm and they mada 
us a good, offer. The timig is good for Palace 
Software. The games market Is changing fast 
and IS particularly competitive." 

Palace Software had previously indicated its 
intention to withdraw from the B-bit market for 
good, but with ownership now moving to 




# P«l««;« Scittwiirc tat b««n iMvalit bv Fr*fi«li company 
L*l»uf« Holding, wMch tflao owns Tltm. WliicJt l« good nowf.. 
bveatw* the a<Hn|M*»r ■■ c«fnlng lM«k to Ui* CPC nMrii«tI 



France, a traditiocially strong CPC marlicet, wiU 
the company change its mind? Well, funny we 
should ask. Pate Stone: "As you know, the CPC 
is a very strong machine in France, As a direa 
result of this move, we wiU be producing S-btt 
software again". 

In fact. Palace has just tied up a deal with 
French developer Mlaoids to publish its nem 
four games. Two games. Swap and 5Iidera, 
should bo out in a couple of months' time on all 
the 16-bit formats and the Amstrad CPC. 



MICRONIT NOW PRIE OFF-PEAKl 

Dedtcaled comms vam? will be delighted to 
learn that Micronet is introducing a new charg- 
ing system which could reduce users' biJls 
dramatically. 

From the 1st ffif April subscribers will get 
unlirmted free access (off-peali ume^ only | to ail 
Missonet and general Prestei information. The 
only cost will be that of a local phone call. 

There's a slight ca.u:h, in that users wiU now 
have to fork out a sub of C30 per quarter. This is 
what business users were paymg anyway, but 
Is £10 more tharv the previous "residential" tate^. 
Nevertheless, heavy users should find the new 
system reduces their bills by more than enough 
to make it worthwhile. While off-peali access is 
now free, at peak times users will pay 3p per 
minute. 

If you're Interested, you can find out more 
from MicronBt on 0442 237237. 

rn MORE 61 28 UPGRADI 
ROMS - CHIAPI 

Those elusive G128 upgrade ROMs are about 
{(gain I Supplies of the ROMs, which allow 464 
owners to upgrade theii machines to full gl2G 
speciiications. were banned over a year ago, 
when the producer, Looomotire Software, dis- 
covered they were bemg sold outside the 
licensing agreement (Amsoene, AA54}. Amstrad 



they withdrew the chips from the market, 
causing much consternation amongst 464 own- 
ers and a general upward spiral in the price Of 
those chips still on the market, 

WeU, after a few months of near-unavailabii- 
ity, limite>d supplies of ihe chip are back, and at 
ai new, lower pnoe. Bradford based Microsiyje 
{0274 e3B6S2 - after 2pm) is selling the wee 
beasttes at £24 9S. while WAVE (0229 870OiM) 
IS offering them at £24 50, Stocks ^e limited, so 
you'd be well advised to phone to check avail- 
ability, plus postage & paclcmg. 




AEROBIC SPECS ALLEVIATE 
EYESTRArN SHOCK! 

Il v.,i- Li.'^i, L KLiuv.' Liiruei. We'd Ehitik this was a 
belated April Fool's )oke. An company called 
Larkhall Natural Health is marketmg "aerobic 
glasses' designed to alleviate eyestrain end 
headaches caused by siaimg too long at computer 
scieens. 

Apparently they work on the "pinhole princi- 
ple", which allows the eyes lo leiax and recover 
nattirallv The glasses should be worn up to a majd- 
mum of 20 minutes per day. We have been 
experimenting in the AA offices with a large card- 
board box and a knitting pin. m an effort to simulate 
the results 

The Aerobic glasses cost £27 per pair, mduding 
postage and packing, and are availabla from 
Larhbatl Natui^l Health on 081 S74 1130 A deluxe 
pack IS available coo. by the way. and includes eye 
exercise charts and a detailed information hook for 
C42... 

SAFE FROM SPILLAGE? 

Sick tij yuui pjuiiet siiaKing asi uinhoty racket? Kador 
IS offering a Dt¥ acoustic printer cover kit for £38 95 
upwards, acooiding to model. And if that doesn't 
tempt you. how about a moulded, waterproof Key- 
board cover that will ptotec: your keys from 
spillages, dust, ogaretie ash etc? Kador is on 04<I3 
740281 




• 04 y«u r^qulai-lv lipM ftU, ••It** mrui ather nana. 
sivc 9ub«l«r*c«s all ov*r yoMr lc*yt)o«rti, ir •«, 
Kador may well ha«# th* «n»w«r... 

tVERYTHIHG YOU EVER 

WANTED TO KNOWz» 

Amsuad buff Ferguson Sugar has come up with a 
rather natty menu driven database oontaining all 

sorts of information about the CPC Books, printers. 
hardware and software are all detailed, and there's 
even a section on the CPC's history To get a copy, 
all you have to do is send a blank dish and a 
stamped SAE to: Video CPC. 18 Moms House. 
Wigan WNl 3QX, MM 




• One* »itmin, 444 »wi>«f* cmn now i>pflnHi« l« 
full 61 2B tp*e, Th&»# •Iutly*ei2e ROMt hav* 
■urfa«*d Aftain, Iht* lim* at • tomta^in pr1««ti< 






• Video CPC in m Uw* rttmmf irtv mn tfatabl** 
dBvolMt Is the Ant«tr*il, lt» p*ripii*ra4>, taftwarc 
and even illuAlriou* ttislDrt! 



May 1991 i«, 



iognifj 



COMPETITION 











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oo-indde vdth our deslrtop puMisli- 

ing special, Amstxad Acttou and 

Maimesmaim Tally are givixig away a 

fantastic 24-pin Mannflsmaim Tally 

MT222 prmter worth wer £S0O. 

24-pm printers offer far hlgber print guality 

tlmn ordinary 9-pin rnacbines, as weU as higher 

pnni speeds. Theii increatsed resolution and 

excellenl giapliic? capaJ>Uities mate tbem id^ 

for d«slctop pubfistiina purposes as well as ordi- 

jisTf letter printing. 

To rnaJte sure that uur prize goes to a good 
borne, however, on wtiere its spedalist featiue^ 
will be put to good use, we're going to check 
four knowled'ge of desktop publishing, the 
Amftrad and printers with no fewer than stx 
(aaaighl) linie questions: 

1* Amsirad Action is (aid out 
on-screen using which leodtng 
machine? 
(a) IBM PC 

' (b) Apple Mocintosh 
jcj BBC Electron 



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2. What does the printing term 
''leading^ refer to? 

(a) The spoce between words 
{b)The space betw^een letters 
(c) The space between lines 

3. The Amstrad CPC has which 
type of printer interfoce? 

[a)ftS332 
jb) Centronics 
{c) 5CART 

4. Name the Amstrad's central 
processor. Is rt... 

{a) An S04867 

(b) A 6502? 

(c) A Z80? 

5. Whot does 'cps' shmd for? 

(a) Characters per second 

(b) Coded printer signal 

(c) Character pin set-up 



6. WHat is 'tractor feed'? 

(a) A mechanism for drawing con- 
tinuous stationery into a 
printer? 

(b) Another name for an automatic 
sheet* iooder? 

(c) A ton of well-rotted silage and 
a gallon of engine oil? 

Simply write down yovr qnswers, e,g* 

1* (o)^ 2. [h) ett, on g postcard^ 

and fend it to; 

Miwyitt coMMmnoN 

AMSTRAD ACTION 
39 MONMOUTH «TMIIT 
BATH, AVON BA1 a*W 

THE RUUS? 

1 .Closing daf* is 3Ut May 1991 

2. Only one entry GJlowed per houseiiold 

• The winner will be cbe fiist correct 
entry selected at random from all those 
received before the closing date. 



AMSTKAD AOTiOM May 1 991 



SOME PRINTERS CAN BE 

CHILD^SPUY... 



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Whatever computer you use, a 
toy town printer is going to 
make your printing look 
appalling however outstanding 
the content. To create the 
right impression and look 
professional you need a 
professionaPs printer. 

NEC. It's a name that 
most profesi^ionab rely 
on. Now rhey introduce 
two new printers^ the 
Pinwriter P20 and P30, 
specifically designed for 
persona! use. 

The Z4-pin pHnthead 
technology that NEC 
pioneered produces 
type quality of 
crisp^ sharp 



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start of print positioning 

that persona! use 

demands, .allowing fine 

setting for each paper 

format. 

And there's a choice of 

9 resident fonts from 

prestigious Prestige Elite 

to classic Courier, 

including typeset look 

proportional spacing. 

Both the P20 and the 

P.^0 are compatible with 

irtually any software and 

both will operate in all major 

hardware environments from 

IBM PS/l and Amstrad 2086 

machines through all the 100% 

PC compatibles 

to manufacturers 



. . . UNFORTUN ATEIY. 



daisy-wheel standard, but at 108 characters 
per second in high speed letter quality mode 
and 216 characters per second in draft mode. 

And the paper handling i<i superb. Built in 
push/pull tractors for perfect non-slip 
printing on continuous stationery; 'low tear 
off* for paper conservation and perfect 
realignment; paper park facility elinitnacing 
messy unloading when printing single A4 
cut sheets. 

They've even thought about the variable 



such as Atari and Commodore. 

At only £299 recommended retail price for the 

P20 and £399 for the wide carriage P30, with so 

many professional office printer features, you 

might be forgiven for thinking that they would 

cost at least twice that. Eiut then creating the right 

impression is what it is all about. 

For samples of the Pinwriter P20 and P30 print 

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- information on the 

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\Y7'^' co?7rmwe our 
VV look at Desk Top 
Puhiisbing on your 
Amstrad. This month 
ALEC RAE puts theory 
into practise iifui tells 
you how to get those 
ideas onto paper. 

So you do want to go into oompeti- 
uon with Amstrad Actioji? But 
where do jfou Btait when design- 
ing a newsMtGT on a desktop publisMng 
package? 

Well the first thing is to decide on the 
size of v^^ ptiblication. Most DTP pru- 
grams will alJow you to design A4-BiEed 
pages, although yoc may well want to pro- 
dues smaller pages than this, For instanf^e. 
if you want to pioduoe a newsletter with 
A4-s]ze pages, the normal way would tie to 
print four pages on to both sides of aji A3 
page, which you then fold in half. The bes;t 
way to do this is to print out each page 
s&paratelv and paste tbem on to the bigger 
sheet 

If you are going to be really ambitious 
and produce an 8 or 12-page publication, it 
Ls best to do a quick mock-up to make sure 
you print the coned pages in the right 
place. It's not as easy as it sounds, 

Naturally, not everyone has aooess to 
printers or duplicators that can handle A3 
paper and, perhaps more importanu ii is 
quite hard to nil four A4 pages. So a lot ol 
newsletters are made up from an AE page 
size, with four pages being printed tjo an 
A4 sheet, 

The proise» roll 

Even with a reaily gpyd, quick printer it i$ 
unlihely that you will want to ma^s-pro- 

duce a newsletter, printing out perhaps 




Slop Press 



stop piess ts widely regaieded as the top 
DTP pacisage around. It otfers the most, 
advanced ieatures found on any of the 
CPC packages (It's the one weVe used 
for the create youi o«m page walis- i 
through-} ^ 

The package fequtrra a disk dnve 
and 12BK of DMOUty, so 46fl owners will 
need to upgiade Own roachmes if 
tbeyire to use tbe psdtag^. 

ft can be used with keybontrd, toy- 
stick or mouse, the latter being the 
laost oontroaiable {Though using the 
heyboaid is hne.} 

To coincide with our feature, we J 
have arranged to have two very tpe- i 
oal oSeis made available to yoa * 
Firstly, the mouse versiwi of JStap j| 
PxBSS s availal^ at a much 
ledoced rats thmugb our mail 
order p^jes See pages U and SS 

Secondly, the Btandard ver- 
sion of \M pidlwe is available 
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hundr^ls of copies on your pnnter, 

losteaEl, most people print the pages out 
once and then duplicate them, either 
through a pTofessional printer or. more noi- 
mally witb a pbiHooopiei. 

If you aii^ using a photocopier that can 
reduce in size^ you're laughing . You can 
slmptv design Uie page on ao A4 iann&l 
and then reduce the size to it the AE size. 
This allows you lo wcrk wrtth a deoeat me 
of page on screen and it also inqmnres tte 
quality of youi text and pictures. Wbat it is 
particulaily good for i^ cutting out the 
'stepping' effect that you get on the curved 
port of letters when you use a dot matrix 
pdnier to print out large headline text, 

h does mean that you have to use a big- 
ger than normal type sizs. though, to aJJow 
for the reduction. But with most DTP pack- 
ages this is QO pvM&m- 

Advance in columns 

Once you have decided on youi page size 
you i¥ill have to decide bow to divide up 
youi page. 

DTP progtams generally allow you to 
spht the page into a number of columns, 
and as aU page design should really be 
aimed at maMog everything readable, you 
should try to use this column fttnction. 
Reading text in quite naKow {jciumns is fai 
easier than reading a line that straggles 
light across a page. 

On the other hand, you can't make the 
columns so narrow that you only get oue 
word to a line. Even H the pacKage win 
allow you to set eight columns you are best 
to stick to DO more than three on an A4 
page and two on an A5. 

You're my lype 

Thon you lavt: to decide on what type face 
you want. This is one ol the real danger 
areas for the beginner in DTP, There ate 
often a good choice of fonts, most of which 
Look far more interesting than the ones you 
normally get out of your printer. 

But agap, the whole thing comes dovra 
to readahiLiiy. Old English font may look 
really differeal, but it also is virtually 
impossible to read, especially if there is a 
lot of text 

With most DTP packages there aie spe- 
cial 'body type' faces, small fonts that axe 
particularly suitable for the great swathes 
of text that tasike up the body' of yotu 
nswalettet. 

Whatever typeface you choose it is 
Important to attck to it. Even if you have a 
choice of fonts it is most unlikely that they 
will k»k good neact to each other. Most 
magazines and newspapets ti^ only two 
or three fonts at the most. 



Making the pages 



So now if s MP to you. WeVe given you ail 
the pointers, but just how easy te ii to 
make up a page in practise? We used Stop 
Press to create a page from axatdl This 
gtep-by-step guide teUs you wJiat you 
need eo Iraow to lay out fou first page. 

B^ore you load ^qp Piees, there are a 
oaipie of things you'll have to do &m. 



Youll need some picturas and text to ba 
put into your page. 

AhbDugh the program offers facilities 
for aeatmg both, its much easier to use 
dedicated programs - an art padiage and 
wordiirooessor - to originate the worli, 
and then import ihem into Um DTP pack- 
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italics and/or dUffirent type si^es- For 
iostance, you miglil highlight the intiodtic- 
tiou to a story by putting the 5iSl 
paiagtaph in bdi± Or you might pic* out 
an rnipoftant point in (h^ imddJe of the text 
by putting it in italics. But again, don't go 
oveiboaM. Too much of this sort of Qaag 
can niaiSB iJi« reader dizzy. 

Can it b« [ustifted? 

You nonnally have the opportunity to 
decide whether to m&Ke youi teat justified 
(with tach line spiead out to take up the 
hiU oolumn width) or 'tagged light' (wftll 
the line ending where it would naiurayy}. 

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narrow oolunns and, especially, if you 
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more indined to use lagged nghi raaigfns. 

Some ptogranis will allow you vary tlio 
body text sm. While this is a great advan- 
tage in that you can adjust ilie si2e ol Lha 
teia to fit the space you hat^e available, 
ttieie is also a great danget in thijs. If you 
use a variety of type sizes on the sane 
page it :sii\ very quiickly become very 
si^appy. Once you have deaded on a size 
foi youi body tent it is wise to stidK to it ss 
much as possible. 

$oroetimos there is also tha oppaaxsnisy 
to alter the spacing betw««i bnes (aU ub 
devei people call it tiding) oi colmnn 
widths. This is a better method lot adjust- 
ing the amount of space you stoiy tak^s up 
liut. again, it can Icok guite stiange to seB 
two Qojurons with diHorem leading next to 
each other. 

Although it is not easy with any of the 
DTP patkages availalJle on the CPC. it is 
best to try to cut tba leugtb of the text or 
add more to make it ht. Most will allow you 
to cut text and to tvp« m direct on to the 
screen so it's not u^possible to get stories 
to fit properly. 

One tip that is worth picking up fjom 
the professionals i^ the use ol cioss head^ 
- tibose little subheadings that you get 
every four or five paragraphs. These do 
help to underline what is unportant in the 
following soction and they do make tbe 
fjage look more Interosting. 

Banner hoadllnas 

It IS perhaps more difficult to picli: a font for 
youi hesdlinas Mom DTP packages will 
off€r you quite a wide tange of tonus 
jmcludiug some that loch very interesting. 

The thing to lemeniber is that if a font 
loots 'very interesting' it prntjahly means it 
is viitually impossiMe to read more than 
three words of it without ghnng youiseli 
severe eye-strain. All the really readable 
foots have been used to death and look 
pretty bonog. 

You may dhoose to go for i:»ie of tbe 
exotic type faces and let the readers talse 
care of themselves. But, as most people are 
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soraeons will read: it, it must be seid tliil 
there is muGh more chance of it beiDg read 
with a boring old type face, 

And if vou want xo looli professional, 
(^tu}0S9 pechapg ons or two headline fonts 
and stick to them. There is onl-y two occa- 
gions when you will see more than three 
teadlijne fonts on a page - In an acfvett for 
a DTP program when they aie wanting to 
show i^ou what it can do, and when some- 
one had jiM got a new DTP package!' The 
sensiUe ttimg to do is to choose a bigger 
vfirsioa of youi body capy. 

All tJie DTP pguctoges will aliow you to 
chaji^e the size of your headline font to a 
greater or lesser degree. The nwra flexibil- 
ity yoii have in this^ the better youi page 
will look - obvioLsly, you want the head- 
line to lit the space at tlie top of the page 
as neatly as possiJ^le. This can. be done 
either by ctkahgin^ the number of words in 
the heading or changing the sije of the 
type, if you can't altei the ai^e oi the text, 
you need to have a good iraagination for 
writing headlines. You want a Tanety of 
font sizes and single and double deck 
beadliaes {one and two line headings) to 
nmhe the page utore lively- 

Height or widfti? 

Another pitfaU is the way some programs 
will allow you to adjust the height and 
width of the letters independently. This is 
oomiaciii in tbe expensive DTP fhke the one 
AA is designed on) and is ideal for getting 
a headline a fit the space exactly. 

Tba probtem is that oq the CPC. usiJig a 
dot matiix printer, each letter is made up of 
a series of dots. If you change the height or 
width the program sirapiy sticks in extra 
rows of dots, 

If you BiQ maMng small adjustmantis to 
height or width itiis can lead to ^i^ 
noticeable distortions, In some cases, you 
may be quite happy with this. But U you 
aie not suie, try printing it out to sae what 
it looks like before you design a whole 
page round it 

It is also worth working out how big 
you can maie your headlines before tbe let- 
ters start 'stepping* - the ragged edge you 
get on the curved pait of larger teift. 

The one pjaoe where you definitely can 
get away with exotio type, however, is tbe 
nrasthead. (The masthead is the bit at the 
top of the first page that tells you whetheit 
!fOU're iMdiiig Amstrad Action or the 
Miiton Keyjiss Pigslaught&rers' Guardfan 
and Gazette.) 

Thi£ doesn't really have to be re^dabie. 
Most people know when they are reading 
the Mifton Keynes Pigslaughleieis 
G\ianlian aad Cazetto without reading the 
masthead. You can therefore go to town, 
picking ths most outiageouE^ font you want. 
With sottiB packages you can also make 
use of the graphics features to maite the 
text more interesting. You can use a pat- 
tern on your masthead, put the text against 
a mote exciting background or even com- 
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InAA64 we finished off 
our two-part review of the 
year's best games. We also 
gave you, the readers, the 
chance to vote for your 
favourite games of 1990. 
This is what you said... 

ow ttien, pop pickers, we have fmall? 
assembled compdecl and arranged four 
choices for (he best games of 15^0. Ii 
was a coSossal task, and one whjch :ook months 
of ooUeaing and storing aU of the valuable data 
you sent lo us. Our mail man bad to enduie The 
task of dra^^lng the huge sacks of !ei:ters and 
entry forms up the stairs. The office was del- 
uged m a flood of mail of almost Biblical 
propotLio^s, But, resolute in our desire to finish 
thfi task, we waded thiougti the mountains of 
post, and discovered, sometimes with honor. 
and sometimes with a kmd of moist happmess. 
what youjT fave raves are. {That's enough gush- 
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L***r SquMd. It c-fruld Ivardly lollow the 
iMialnal, but il't kttll «i[C*ll*nt. 

As It turns out, your tastes are qutie varied 
You tot seem to like everything from the tivost 
mindless shootem-up to the deepest, most 
mteilectuaUy demanding adventure games. We 
are, however, glad to amiounce that youi faves 
aie almost exactly ths same as ours! 

We did get a couple of very bizane entries, 
voting foi some of the biggest turkeys of all 
time. Remember Hercules A bit dufl. to say the 
least, and certainly not from 1990! That's right, 
we also received a few votes fox games which 
were much loo old, Pay attention next time I 

PLatfonn games were easily the most popu' 
lar category, if there is one thing you folks agn i 
on, It's that jumping and bouncing ara gouc 
ways to spend a ramy afternoon. Second on 
your list of fab genres aie shoot<em-up$. U 
seems you just cannot find enough aliens to Ml 
Even lAThen there ai^e aliens aplenty, you stilL 
want beefier, more devaetatmg power-ups 
Aicade oonvetsiofts generally fit the bill m thi$ 



SHOOT-EM-UPS 

Here are the top five shoot em ups as you, the readers, voted. How many vile alien scum did 
you wipe out before you put pen to paper? 

L Turricon 9Samss?^a^SS& Rambew Arts 

/ We thought Rainbow Atts' blaster was eitoellent loo. The graphics v»ei« great, the 
"^^ gameplay spot-on and the sheer numbers and relentlessness of the baddies had us all 
gasping. 

X.o„| MMMaBHESillK Roinbow Arte 

t Rainbow Arts had a good year in 1990 X-Ovt was as fast and tough as any shootem-gp 
we'd seen, aru] had the added factor of a huge range of extra weapons you could buy in 
a shop* Only just pipped to the post by Tumcan 

P47 Thunderbolt FlreliM 

/ Horizonialiy scioiling woM war 2 action. Fly your P47 deep into enemy terrilory. and 
/ give ihem a good hiding' There wasn't much tliat was new in this game, but it was very 
playable and there were some stunning graphics i 

Operation Thunderbolt Oceon 

I First person perspective mHdiine gun fun. tf it moves shoot it. if it doesn't... the sequ^ 
-^ to Opefation IVo^f/wrth more of everything. , 

After the War Dinomic 

I Suipiise enuy time again. A horizontally scrolling biastei. and one that almost gives war 
^ a had name [perish Uie thought) Not too lough, with superb graphics. 



PLATFORM GAMES 

Definitely in vogue at the moment, plaifomi games seem to be ev^iyone's favourite pastime. 
Often cute, but seldom dull, they can encompass quite a wide range of styles. Tbey all have 
one thing in common though - pixel-perfecl timing. 

^ Rick Dangerous II "^ Micro Style 

< / Easily the best platform game of last year, this platform extiavaganza wdl keep you 
7 awake unciJ the wee small hours. Lois of exploring, puzzling and wicked gam^ilay. 

Turrican 5k«ISK Rainbow Arts n«ad 

i Well, this one ]UEt about gualifies as a platform game, we suppose. No puzzling, but 
^ plenty of exptoring and some very nasty su rpcises . . . --™™r^ 

Fantosy World Dizzy Codomaston 

y Who said eggs aren t hard and oooP Dizzy is. and you'll lind out why if ymi watch him 
/ someisault skyward Dizzy is a bit of a cult figiure in the budget niar]i«t, not least 
because all the games he's in are very playable and very capiivatmg;: 

Roinbow Islands ^^^ Ocean 

• Oh, it's GO cute tt'U just make you want tio bkw youi groceries. Ouide ihe big-headed 
■^ nptoq through a maie of platforms on h>s magtc rainbow bndges. Supeib playabtliiy. 

Myth System 3 

, Tncby platfo^rm pimler vrtCh tnore th&n an tenant ol vioien(£< Nice spooky atmosphere, 
and lots of lush graphics, even if they nre Speocy ports 



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Readers' Raves (the, er, top 20) 



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^^. Rick Dangerous 2 Mtcro Styl* 

%/ Daiing Dickie Dangemu^ has che leadeis' vote by a. mile. His platform 

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I Dangemus has che leadeis' vote biy a mile. His platform antics aid puzzUng roAyheat abdously had yuu hooked 

from tb» fitanl 

Snirrlcon Roinbow Arte 

Sd fl blast^-ramai The leaplog. sprintmg. sbooting, kililiiig. blasting cyberduds only jiust misses out on tiie do. 1 slot of 1990 

^^ f antafy World DIxxy C«l«iiiast*rt 

Budget iaffs aplenty, 
a measly three quid.! 



^ / Budget [ails aplenty, as qui intrepid egglHra baro is ooctfronted by taoie puzzles than ycsu can sbake a stict at. and aH tbis for 



^ Rumin' Rubber Ocean 

"Vt^^ Boss leafing round intimations diouts tD a bUQ^ly pow^iful supen^ai sound good to ytni? Fab grapbicff grom this &rst evm 

\^ Anistrad oonsole game 

I ^ ^ Ch«e HQ Ocean 

\^,Bai More driving fun, but this time chasing crimiDaJs aiounti AsoenciB- You don't fust puU tbem over, tiicugh - you Bash 



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\ * V l^^P. cla^ du^ dungoons, and dial>olically dastardly denizens! Lords of Chaos was a great fdUow-up to the 
\ir dassic Las&i Squad. 

^ Ij Rainbow islands Ocean 

Mill Even cuter thait a h:g l:iag af fluffy <M^ things, the best arcade oonveision of the y ear makes it into the tap ten. 
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"^ Iron LonI Ubi Soil 

Brmiant graphic adventuring, but where did you lot get your copies - It's not even out in Eiiglis;h1 



The fave footie slm in the chut] Puil on ytflu spedaJ Gazza wig, and give that football the ktcUng it so ndity deserves. 



(, y Italy 1 990 US Ootd 

f * Sim City Infograme* 

v *> At last! The chance to build and control yomr own dty, A bit of nifty town pianning is requiied to keep yotii citizens taappr. 

^\. Ohostbusten 2 Activision 

*\I spooky goings on in New York in [hi£ exoeHlent movie de-in. Stop the s^me eognlGng New York, and destroy Vigo 

^■*' the Carpattuan[ 

. * Shodow ol the Beast Oremtln 

\ /^'^ You're half man. hall er... ihingirt this fiaollingi beat-em-up. Lots of area to map and estimate, and nice graphics tbroughouL 



f> j^ The Untouchables 

\^ ^ You loo conid have a machine gi 



Ocean 

guu just like EUiot Ne^. Pull on your Armani suit and go do some (jood in ZQa Chicago. 




J^ \ Fighter Bomber Activision 

\ 4^ FilJed polygons enhatKie the action no end in this truly outstanding flight stmulatoi. Chocks away, diapsf 

^^^„ Bloodwrych Image Works 

^r ^^ ^^ ~ ^'■^ ^^ "^^ ^^'^ ^^^ dungflKHis and dragons stuff, bwt with enough style and originality to pdl it offn 

^T' Kiax Domark 

Excellent puszUng antics In xhia Tacris-type afioir. Stack colourad blocks in hofizontaJ. diagonal or v^tical hnes to win the day. 






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^ ^ i» Fiendish Freddy Mindscapo 

^^f Multievent drcus fun in one of the weirder games to bit the Amstrad scene. A suipn^e late entry into the top cwentf . 

#^, ^ Myth System 3 

^ ■ PlatTorms actkjn again, this time set agamst ifte bacltdrop of andent Greek and Rcnnan mythoitogy Nice graphics 
'^^ and spiffy gaiaeplay. 

^ • J X-Ouff Rainbow Arts 

^ -^ Tremendous stoot^^in up actioa in a hoiizontally'Saolling underwat^i blast, And you can buy your own wsapoos. . . 

^% ' Stvnt Cor Racer Micro Style 

m ^ Basic but fast graphics make this rolleicoastei laoag game one to watcli out for. It's like stodt car racing on a big dipper! 

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• stunt Car racer ti»ea some pretty minimal 
w\T*-iT*mm ^raphi-c*, but Is *tf last and 
IklayAbl* it da^srt'l iiutt^r. 

On the subjea of licences, it seems thaE film 
he-ins are all the rage these days, what with 
Robocop, Batman. The Vntouchsbles and the 
like. Ocean is the leading light here, and during 
1990 asaemhled a fonaidable list at excellent 
film tie-ins. 

So we caji now present the top twenty 
games chan as oompUed by Amstiad readers. If 
you disagree witli any of the plaoeffients on the 
chaits, don't blame us, because it was you lot 
who sent the results in - we only put 'em 
together! 

{Incidentally, one-time programmer Adam 
Wanng was shocked and horrified to laam that 
his masterpiece Lost Caves didn't make the 
ntimbei one spot or the chart for that matter Ho 
ho... no, soiTY, it's not funny, is it?) 







• QrMnlin w**dl rwHl* i graphic* tow stm^w 
tff (h0 B***t. TlH r*sult it tupttrb detail and 
Bflimatiofi. 

Further sorting revealed the top five in eadi 
of three rategories. Shoot-em-up. Platform and 
Simulatjcm. Without a douht. jumpy jumpy pial- 
form games were the most poptUar genie, with 
shoottes following closely behind Ktckmg up 
dust and bEowtng their afterburners at the rear 
came the simulators 

• Console and Plus owners made themselves 
heard, with more than a (aw votes for cartridge 
games. However, the over^vhelmmg majonty of 
stalwart 464 and 6126 owners buried Qieir votes 
at the low end of the scale. Who knows, though 
- maybe next time the tables will be turned. .. 



The famous f arogo of 
tKe bungled black box 

Soinathing went, er. slightly wrong with 
our chart form back in AA64. Everything 
went according to plan until the time 
came for readers to print their naiDes and 
addresses in, er, a black boK. 

It was Rod's fault. Here is his very own, 
handwritten apology to all out readors; 



20 



SIMULATORS 



A bit of a tricky categoiy, this one, since what one person classes as a simulator, another 
doesn't. As far as we're conceri^ed. a fimulavOi is a game nvhiCh derives its gameplay from an 
attempt to mirror something in the real world, tt doesn't have to be as accurate as the latest 
flight sim, just as long as it's attempting to duplicate a real -life activity. 

Sim City Inlognimes 

7 Suipijse suFpjise' Irtlogrames' dty-buildiiig smiulai^ki might sounti a daft idea, btil it 

/ obviously gets your votei 

Figbter Bomber Aclivislea 

' Fy a iGtally gnarly jet Iighner into enemy skies, and destroy the bad guys on land and m 
the air- The simulator' aspect is ptayed down m favour of lots of combat 

Stunt Car Racer Micro Style 

> Is this game a simulator? Sure it is, witb piopei 30 and some IXHrifymg drops when you 
f ger it wrong, it'll mate you quake just like the real ihing. (Well, u made Rod quake, 

anyway.} 

Hord Dri¥iii Domark 

^ CojvjeiSLtn ot a colossally popular Atari coin-op, and a veiy notrie attempt at a reahsuc 
v>^ dnving simulator. It's tough, and the genumc 3D rs a lot for the S-hit Amstrad to handle. 

~ international 3D Tennis Palace 

L Stick-man 3D graphics but ultra-deep gameplay make this one for the ihinking 
spoitsman. Not terribly slidi:, but inoiedibly detailed and aocuj ate. 



And the winner is...? 
fffclr Dangerous II! 



Amazingly enough (or is it just a tribute to 
Amstisd Action leviews?), you lot out Oiaie 
voted Rii:k Dangerous U the best game of 
1990 - just like we did I This plafibnn puzding 
epic scored a massive 97% back In AA63 for 
it$ coDhination of tricky puzzles, exploration 
and tuning, The graphics are great, sound 15 
excellent and ttie game is was massive, It 
consists of five different levels, each set on 
diEferent worlds (and each posses;sing prob- 
lems cbaracteTistiC of that wOrlfi). Fouf Of the 
worlds can be accessed at will, while you can 
only get to the fifth tf you complete the other 
fotn in one sitting. SDB is tough enough to 
last you for ages, but addictive enough to 
keep you playing long Into tti« night. Every 
mght! 





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4 Tf*Wilna caraluKy tllraujilv l)M AlAmifi 
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CoMipo winners 

Now then, m AA64 we promised a mystteiy 
prize to ten winners picked at Tandom from 
those sending in voting forms. And the prize? 
Well because Ridi Dmgewus U has b^n 
voted game of the year by both Ajnsuad' 
Aci;on and its readers, Micro Style, the pub- 
Usher, is giving away a T-shiit and badge to 
each o( out ten winners. Their names are as 
loilows: 

DwHil futif, AiffbtftrFriUcftfy 

Mr- M. 011*1, Chtithdrrir K«Ht 

Oliver Btraard^ M«ittenolta, C«rk 

St«van Davy, KIkhin 

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C. Malcolm, lnv«m«w 

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Got any technical queries? Are you stumped by your 
computer? A/1 '* very own technical wir^jrdADAM 
WARING win attempt to sort it out for you. Or maybe you 
want to pass on some tip you Vc discovered to the rest of us? 
(Send us a good 'un and you could be in Une for a £25 mall 
order voucher!) Write to: Forum, Amstrtiii Actinn, Beauford 
Court, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BAl 2BW 



Lost in tapes 

I sm ad Affiattad 6128 user, J am having difficul- 
ties in Uansfe'TrLiig tlie progiams from the cover 
tape of AASA to disk. The transfer utility loads 
and displays s(»me lolarroatJon and coroin^d^ I 
play th6 cassette, the screen OfxasioriaUy 
becomes coinipted and the disk dnve buzzes 
into action. When t come to CAT tlie disk after- 
wards, only tbe BASIC ptogiams haye loaded. 
e.g. PUZZNIC,BAS< LOST.BAS, The buiary pio- 
giBiQS Lave not been transferred so the games 
win not load When the tape has ended and I 
have pressed Escape, tine foUowmg comes up 
on the screen: Enoi - tape/disji or escape break 
in line 160. 

I am alsc having trouble m loading Space 
Fioggy directly from tape while otber games 
can be loaded. 

On a lighter ndtei. please o&uld you reoom- 
mend ^me good coiApiiati'Oi^ oi games that are 
avadable cm dislt. Also, some software that wa£ 
desigDed speoficaUy for the Amstrad 6MB 

David Baooa 
Qtimaby 

Vnat I tbinlc is happenim. David, i$ timt the 
t:ape is luiviiiig on vrhiie the compute/ is trans- 
terrisig piogrsms t» disk. The CPCs have a 
baHt-m compam-cimtrolisd switch cc stop the 
c^pe torn moomg when it's Dot required Tim 
BEM socket needs to t>e conseaed to the tape 
rMorder fo: it to work though. 

li your cassette reooidei dt^sa't have this 
REM fadhiy, then you re going to have to be 
extra vigiiant: as soon as the disii diive si^ns to 
whin pause the tape, only lestArtmg when ail 
sign of disk access is aif$i. h's a hit oi a pain, 
bat you onlY have to do it once pe; ajvertapei 
CooipiJatioiis, eh? Last atanxh we had atauctd 
bonanza with three packages renewed. Cftec* 
out last mmth 's Cheat Mode 

Many of tJie mora seiious padiages jjmke 
use of the 6i28's extra memory. sa<± as 
Advanced Art Stadio and Stop Press. 

Inside wcrets 

Last month (AA6^ there wi£ a ptea for help 
fioai Daniel Robinson. He wajited to Isnow how 
60 use Des Daley's assembler. My advice is not 
to even try to use the assembler: it's more txou- 



bis than it's worth. Qo and buy iiaxam. But il 
you aj:en't disooura^ed, this is bow it works; 
You put your machine oode Commands inside 
the assembler, before the BASIC program. 
Before you type the commands in. you must 
delete the demonstiauon program. An inverted 
comma must precede the oommands. Preceding 
that must be a line number. e.g. 

16 'ld«,BT 
ae '»L1 ftbbSa 
38 'ret 

So your machine code aatually becomes part oJ 
the awembler. Run the program. The code will 
asssmble before ycwr eyes. Finally, make a call 
to the eitecution address. Before typing In a dif- 
ferent madiine code program, you haye to 
delete the oW one. My advice is to save a "mas- 



Slop the presses 

I was just flicking through a computer club 
teaflet. when I saw DTP or Stop Press ot 
something lor £11.95 and I was wonder tng 
whether you can get it on tape and dio you 
have to use a mouse? Can you not lusi uk a 
loystick? 

Joanne Kelly 
New Mo&sley. Co. Antrim 

Stop Press is oniy avaJahfe on disic, i'm 
afraid Joanne Howevw, n is usable ii^om 
iievboard and joysuck as ivelf as mouse 




• Make your own maqaiina witFi Sfcip 
Press. Tn-u on use moum«, Ja)r*tic1i Or 
keyboard, tKit it require t » (titll 
dri^rv »rtd 1 2SK. 



tet " copy Of the assembler , one with do machine 
axle program m it, to disk Then you can load 
this each time you want to use the assembler. 

You can enhance the assembler too Not 
many complicated programs can be done with- 
out the enhancement. It is done by typing bU 
extra hnes m the ngbt peaces in the assemtdoTa 
program. Some of these hnes were printed in 
issues of AA after the issue upon which the 
cover tape was mounted. These issues aie now 
very old, and if you haven't got them now. ipm 
probably never will! To let the assembler have 
loads of new commands, yau will really have to 
tmdetstaod how it works, f spent weeks trying 
to get De^ assembler up to scratch - with a lot 
of hard work it's possible to get a very reason- 
able program. 

Edward Hteatt 
Cambridge 

Thanks Edward. 



Plug it in 



I bought ray CPC4&4 with TV modufalor BitPl. 
The specihcation read. 'For tise with any 
portable television.' I thought, 'Great, I'll save 
myself some money not huymg another mom- 
tor." 1 dashed home to plug into the TV, 
whereupon I found my small hut &ustrating, 
dilemma. 

The TV 1 have is a Hitachi with a buHtin 
TViTtGB monitor switch. This means that to be 
able to use the 4M I must have a special lead 
fitted with a 7pin plug to Lnsert into the RGB 
socket ajad ptesumaNy a G-piii plug to inseit 
into the monitor port Of the 4G4 Is there such a 
lead? 1 don't loiow, I've tried everywhere m the 
Birmingham area, What [ want to know is, 
where can t get this damned lead^ Mail order? 
Amsliad dealeis? Sectncal retailers/whole- 
saleis? If it is as stniple as an address from 
yourseh, I'd be most gratebil if you couM 
enlighten me. 

Currently I am using a deaepit old moiio 
portable which produces dire graphic^ effects 
and dlegible text, I pine for soroethtng m my 
kfe.l pine for cotour! 

Seriously, could you help me You're my only 
hope. 

PS, What happens to the fi^l Modulator? Horn 
it become obsolete or do I have to jncoipoTaie it 
in the set-up as well? 

Steven Smith 
Binningbam 

Vou should be able to use the MPl ModtiCaror 
with your Hitschi TV. The teily vrUl stiit have 
the ordinary aerial inpal which yo\i can piuQ the 
aenal lead from the MP] into. 

Howevm, tisiag ^e RGB input directly wilf 
give a deiarer, monitor guali ty picture, f a&e the 
pin-ou( diagrams along to on dectncal store and 



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TBOHHiOAL H 




Out of the area 

I nflUoed tn Forum, AAS7. a letter concerning 
user areas. Your iep]y to tJie letter concerned 
changing user areas, but it is possible to save 
things into a user aiea without ctiangmg Ihe 
area. Foi instance, il ! wajitecJ to save the (lie 
fROG into usei atea 1 lather than 0, 1 would 
type: 

It IS als^ pcis$il3]e to save things m usei areas 
with numbers up to 255, but cttaitging tJi« 
user area as foUaws: 

POKE Sftiei, <ltSEIt Ko,> 

You have to bewaie of area 229, howBvei, 
since this is wheie Amsdo? stores deletfi<l 



they Rhoi^d be able to make a iend up tor y&ii. 

a you hiV6 no luck m youi aiea, :h^n 
Liverpool'bttS^d Lightwave is an 'nccetSent 
SCUKe tot sUch. ihmgs. Il should be abte Co sup- 
ply what you regwe tor W to 15 qaul or so. 
IJghtw9^f0, UaSi IS, Winal Bu^ess t;eDCre, 
Dodc road Sirkeabead, Merseyside lAi IJW. 



Printing money 

i have an AtnstTad 6120 with ooiow monitor 
I've got a word processing disi and desktop 
puJD'Itghing pachage. and would like to buy a 
printer and appropriate loads. 

Letter-<iuallty print ^d the ability to print 
on any paper or envelopes is vital. Colour 
depends on pnce. I would consider a mono- 
colour printer if a colour one was too expensive. 
Speed i^n't too Important, 

Alsci. how do [ transfer ptogprams c» wMe 
tape$ to dish ((roia cassette)? I already have a 
cassette player h Leads. 

liiaCbapDun 
London 

Afoft cheap {i.B. afi^dabfe) doi mmuc pmXQTS 
C09tr aeai iettei qudUty (NLQ) latitei ihaa letter 
gualicy output. As che diiaiaaters are ioimed 
from an array of dots they inevitabiy suffer &om 
sbgbtty unepen psruit. A rlaisywliaej printer 
oveicomes the piobiem by haviag the latter? 
ptoperty formed rather like a typenriter's. 
HowevBT, daisywheeis are s!ow, noisy, rela- 
tively expensive, and are only capi^e of usjag 
tfteir pre-det&nmied fonts. They can't piint 
graphics, do any dev9i pimthig tiieks, and so 
are useless when it aomes to DTP. 

A 24-jsn piiBter goes some of tfie way tc 
solving the problem. They wo^ like Staadaid 9- 
pin dot matruf pnrrters. hur tJie DTP output is 
far dearer because so many more pias are used 
10 form the image. Star does a 24-pm version of 
its popular LC200 coiour printer, the Star LC24' 
200. ft Jias a flJJtF 0/ £369 exdiiding VAT 
(Though you'll be aWa to find it far cheaper 
through mail order oatieis.) 

One word of warning though: you may find 
that the prinier. any prmter. has dWiCUJty wit/j 



files, and anythmg saved here is liable to dis 
appeal without any warning. This is more 
likely to happen on a disk whict has been 
used a lot, l^ecause the directory space gets 
tilled up will) deleted files. 

Another useful address is &A7tiO. This 
contaiEks the dnve number. It is for drive A 
and 1 lor dnve B. 

PS. Tiliere 3 a prize going f« anyone who can 
inteipfet this waffle No tliere isn't Only iofe- 
ing Hart Han Harr! 

Ed Blackshaw 
Betlfotd 

Cheeis. tor that Ed. Note thai using a similar 
trick you can actuaiiy m-etJSse acadeniaily 
deleted fH& too: 

mi timLUS!iSEH,-ii;iiltMne''.'tite- 



eovelopeS and very tM^ paper ^ar raoSK 
rnends that yon don't use fsnytliwg with a 
tiuckness ot greater than .ZSiata. U foii'ra 
msme whetliei your s^tionary iS suitable, 
s&Qd a sample along to Star. It will test it out for 
you. (Kind, eh7l Star Mitsordca Ltd. Star House, 
PeregriBe Business Park. Comna Soad, High 
Wycoinbe. Bucks HPl3 WL Teiephone 0494 
471tJl. 

The Tape-disk transfer program on the front 
of our coveitape mil transfer standard tiles from 
tape ia disk, l^t commeiaal programs may well 
be protected, and will not transfer easily 

D«ik 

Once upon a time in AA&4 you reviewed a PD 
progn^am called Desk whicfi was available from 
DW saftwai«, Sut no address was given for oon- 
tacung David Wild, the owner Unfortunately, I 
EQifised getting a few copies of AA (very sorry},, 
and I still don't know where to wnte Ofi to. 
Could you please print the address so that I can 
get my bands oil this marvellous piece of pio^ 
gtafflrmngi? If you do I'll make sure 1 never miss 
another copy of AA again. 

Neil Grove* 
BlBdtl>urti 



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• Vour CPC will tliink it'* m M«c wHh EtowM 
Wiid'B ■muJng D*f ii proven- W)n<loWBi 
Leon*., |i««M«i P9int*r«i Th«)r"f« «ll h«f«. 

you caji get y<nir copy of Desk foi £6 from DW 
Software, 62 Lascelles AveBue, IVicfaemsea, 
Nwtti Huabeiside HUl 9 2£B. 
Now don't forget your promise. . , 



In all prabobility 

At school m mailis we are doing stuff on proba- 
biiicy. At the moment we aie doing it with 
coins. I have written a program that throws a 
com up and tells you wtol side it Is showing, ! 
did tlus by using the RND command. I have get 
some questions to ask yuu. but [ will show you 
the program first; 

S FOR dzl to leeeiHEKTiPRINT ' ' 

le FRIHT *l'n tossing the coin,.."; 

ZB FOR j::i to 3 

30 FDR d=l to ase^KEXT d 

40 PRINT " ■; 

SO N£Xr j 

SO PRIMT 

70 IF SHIXe.S TKEH GOIO IBB 

88 PRIHr 'and it's tails!' 

Se GOTO 5 

100 PHIHT "and it's hwds!' 

118 GOTO 5 



Please can you tdl me what I would need to do 
so that first it asks: 'Pitncei or sreen' and! ytiu 
have to type in P or S? Then t want it to say; 
"How many coins to be (hiown (MO)", or some- 
thing like that Then, finally, E wotUd like It to 
give a total of heads and tails. Please oould you 
answer my questions and re-type my program? 

Ckiuld you tali me hxtw you ^m pitnt out 
youi listing on a printer and oould you teU me 
how you can print out the miff from Logo, I 
know how to print out the prot^ures, but not 
the actual stuff you draw. Finally, oould you telJ 
me what ribbon I need for my L£-2D0 printer? 
Would it work with the LC-IO coloui or mono 
tibbon? 

Paal Begley 
Verwood. Dorset 

For the coEoputer to ask a iTti«stion, you nieed to 
use the INPUT comiaand. It's pc^ibie to input 
both text and numteri; with the command, so U 
yoa add the Gowng lines to yom program: 

I MWr 'SctBtn or Ptii\Ur':ii: 
mm 'Hmier ol coins ";b 

The osmpiiEar mK now ask the questionSi bat 
won't do (atything with the lesufte as yet. You 
now have to get it to make use of the infonna- 
rion yoTJ Ve given it: 

a sr0;lf mEii$(it):'P' THEN S-B 
3 FOfl x-1 to n 

Y<7ti1f have to chan^ lines 9Q and UOto read: 

HSXT xjsm 

YouTl also Mve to taodity all the lines with 
fUM in to read FAlKn^ instead This wOl 
direct tJie computer to use the screen il s ts set 
to 0. or the printer il s stpiais 8. 

Printing the lisLng out on a prints is dt^e 
in a similar way. Use the command LIStti. 

The old LCW nbbons won't work vtjth youi 
LC200 I'm aiiaid. You'U aeed to bay the new 
lihbons which Jiave a product £iOde Z9CjL, 



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On the wide side 

Hei&'s a (sehous} tip m a p[iat«x pmblem I bava 
aeve: seen mentioned anywhere in print. , It 
applies to my DMP30CK), but J have no doabt 
that other Epson-oompfltibk prLniers suffer the 
same way. 

Using the condensed font, the printer is the- 
oiecically capable of prmtcng 137 diaiacters pes 
8-illch line. In practioe. however, it jibs at 128 
characters, tipping tbe surplus over 
127 OD to the n^t line, Some word 
piooesaors maoaae to oiake H do 
iQoie. but noDe tbat ] know of 
give am full 137. Even Piot&ia 
only manages 132. Up to recently, 
I have not really needed morer but 
a £hoit ittme ago I wiota a program 
whjdt needed a 135-diaractei-per'imeprint-out, 
ft Unk a surpusing time to find out how to do rt, 
but in the end I cams up with the following: 




1. Issue wmm Z5B to the compiiteT. 

2. Issue a left print tnaigjn of to the printer. 

3. Set Tight print margm to any number 
between 1^8 and 131 All values print 137 
characteF^ per 8 biob line Below 128 the 
speciiied tmmber of charaot«T« ii printed; 
above 13 1 the printer goeji haywire and 
prints short lines, 

4. Line lengths between 129 and 136 must 

be obtained by moving the left band edge in 

(enter 1 to 10 instead of 01. U line centring is 

needed, do tbis by moving the paper. 

If you are cunous as to why I needed this, ft 

was for a pattern print-out program for use with 

Foundation Software's sequenoei. Using it with 

subscript at 12 lines per inch spacing, you can 

get IS patterns per A4 pag«. Minute, but quite 

readable. 

Oilbeft Uatthewman 
Leeds 

fbanks for ibe tip Gilbert That des&vss a £25 
voucher, WeE d&a^l 

Modem 0rl 

FirstJv I would liite to say what a good magazine 
it is that ymi are producing, and that 1 am an 
avid reader of it. And secondly I have a few 
gueiies I would like dearing up. 

If 1 bought a digittser, oould I take a pctuie. 




# Macliln* cod* ia FM>t mti easy languagv to Ibbiti, but Ih* FAkult* AM 
wall worth It. □■! hoM of m 0DDd book to t**Cft fOu «ll llM l*te*« Wmd 
t««lMih|u*a «nd you'll *tn^n b* bumlrtt0 th* mldnt^t «!!. 



Disk print 11 

t have ]ust fead issue 65 of youi fantastic mag- 
Htzme, In the Reaction section, under the 
[leading "The ninklies strike hack" was a let- 
ter askmg for a way to print the contents of a 
ciisK Easy-peasy! Just load CP^, turn your 
l^jtiniei on line, press CONTROL and P 
tijRGther, and you'll hear a beep. Insert the 
ri;sk to catalogue and type DIB (and press 
RETURNii The |)niuej will start and give you a 
catalogue on pJipei. 

Alletnativdy, alter picssuig CTRL and P. 
you could uisert side one of CffM* and type 
"OIS IFULLJ Bi," mseli the disk lo cataJijgue 
and hey piesto' 

The above might only work on CP/M+. 
fhou.gh 

Also. leceotly m AA I've seen some weird 
things in REM statements etc in the TVpe-ins 
section (my favourite! f. ¥mi say that all Type- 
!i5s are public domain, so why do ^me have 
messages like: (C) Watashi Soft 1990 and [C) 
HYDERENTEHPRISES 1939? 

Were these piogiants copyright but have 
recently been changed to PD, oi are they, m6 
have they always been, oopyiight^ I'm sure 



for example a photograph, digitise it, and then 
be able to edit the digitized picture with nry art 
package (Advanced Art Studio)? Also, on some 
adverts for digitisers 1 have seen, it says tbat it 
feeds the image through the ptintei (or some- 
thing hke that), What doe^ tbis mean? 

Also, if 1 bought a raodeni. would I be able to 
contact and 'speak' with a person writh a differ- 
ent oomprter, for example an Amiga? What else 
would a mixiem be useful for? 

fiecetiUy I started to learn machine code. 1 
have started wi^ CF/M+ programs, using ED 
and ASM as learnt from a book called 
listwduoag Ainstrad Madtme Code hy Ian 
Sindair, I then started writing ZSQ maduLe 
code programs vrith ADAM (by Audiogenic 
Software} and created hies that could be loaded 
hom BASIC. These aie not very u^ful as all I 
can do is print messages to the screen and do 
calculations. I know what most of th Z*=BO com- 
mands dO, but do not know any good ro^jtines. 
only &BB5A which prints 
a charactai Btoied m the 
accumulatoi to tbe 
screett. Is there a book 
you could recommend to 
me that has lots of useful 
routines and addiesses 1 
(xiuld use specifically for 
my 6123. 

Also you ran a 
seri^ for beginners to 
madiine code (first 
Fytes) in the late thirties 
and early forties issues. 
In the early fifties i^ues 
you did a series on 
advanced machine code 
programming (JWachine 
Code Mastery^, leavmg a 
big gap for people like me 
who had got past the ini- 
tisj DODcepts, and wanted 



I'm 

twt the only one confused' 

Also, perhaps on some bulletin boards 
youve seen some messages Uke "Neon PD 
Software - the new CPC and Plus software 
hbrary" or something lite that? Wdl that's 
us! As soon as we get ouiselves sorted etc. 
we'll give ytm a disk or two with a k»d of our 
programs. 

Keep up the great vuork in the PD section 
and Type-iits, and everything else in your 
great mag, (I don't tlunk tliat you sliould have 
large prmt and fewer programs in the Type 
ins sechon.) 

Tim McCarthy 
fiagshot. Surrey 

Thanite for the cat^ogue printing C(p. (Ve pub- 
tsh9d 0119 s coupie of issues ago. but yoiris is 
a joUy bandy ahsinative. 

Even though a progtam msy be f^bhc 
Dojnajn, EfM? authoi stili retams cctpyngfal over 
the program. By the way. you must not aJter 
the programs in anj; way, so tltese OC^hght 
(^^ssages must be- left ia - after aK, it's only 
fail that t^je writei gets same leoagrution for 
thsawoik. 



to leant some good ieduuque$, soioe useful 
aiddiesses and a few toutines. 

DaFidCardna 
Stamford, Lines 

A digitissr wSI tske ss image from a video 
source (sudi as a wcfeo <^roera or VCE} and 
converting it into a form the conipater can 
maoQNttate, Great Hen taking pictures of yom 
mates, but you do need access to a camen or 
Fideo. The Roinbo Vidi Di0 costs E.S9.9S and is 
arailabte ^m Jlomho PmductiDns, S Fairbain 
Koad KiiiOtm North, Living^ica. ScoUaod 
EH54 6TS. 

A scanner reG^cts a beam of bgbt over a 
photogiapbic iimge, and siores it into a com- 
pu:ei in 3 simifar way. Some scanners use tbs 
mechaniics of a pimier to move the soannhig 
devfce over the image. aJUowing tflem to be 
marie relathreiy cheaply. The Dart Scanner 
oast5 £7^ 95: IJart EleclZDmcs LTnit B5 Oulton 
Works. School Ho&d. Lowescrott, Suffolk NR33 
SUA. Tel 0502 513707. 

The language of the modem is umver^ 
and you can intieed ajmrntnucate vfith anyoim 
who has any type of computex, af tentg as they 
loo have a modem. 

Yau can also book up to buOetin Jxwd - a 
sort of eiecuomc user group which aliows fou 
to oommunicate wiih others who use the same 
boaid- You can even play Mtilti User Games, 
where several peopie play the same game 
smuitaneously. Or you oould hade into Barclays 
and add a few zeros to the end of your bal- 
aBoe... 

The Amstrad Advanced Users' Guide by 
Dardei Martin, ISBN l-SSlSl-OStS. is a pc^iiive 
mme of mloimaaoa. It costs £8.50 and is apaiT- 
able from Oteo^. Unit U. StitUag laduatriaS 
Cenm. Stir/fag way. Borahamwood, Herts 
^me 2Bf> T^m9S$ 92S2. 

We have exciting piaas for a new macbme 
Bode series in the future. Watcb this space. . 



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Wotidered 
the streets 
until my feet siin|ilv 
ached looking for a svp- 
piier of eyelash curlers - 
anyone know where I 
can get them? 

Well, how much you 
oil like the BASIC tuto- 
rial! I'm not just a pretty 
face then, am I? Right, 
let's get on with it, the 
mail bag's simply burst- 
ing and I'm sure you're 
all dying to know 
whether I've been able 
to answer your query 
this month. 

One thing before 1 do 
though. Many of you 



Confused of West Klrbyl 

David Beaumont is, by his own admission "...a 
very confused person) " Andi wtat's the cause of 
all that confusion'' ""I have so many questions 
that need answenng../ says the poor young 
man. Let's have youf first then, David. 

"Can you recommend a good cheap wort! 
processor as t have little money left m the bank. 
I read your review on wotd processors m the 
February issue of AA, and the cheapest word 
processor was Praieya, but you said it was for 
business and as I only need it for school pro- 
jecti, that might not be best.. ." 

That's right. Protexi is an excellent word 
processor (it's used ail the tune in the AA 
office,.) problem a, it's not exactly cheap, 
right? There are, however, alternatives. Some of 



Start letters with ''^l 
know you'll tbink I'm 
stupid but»" or ''«.this 
is probably really easy 
but*^'', stop thinking 
like that! Computing is 
olways a little difficult 
at first, if was for me, 
and it is for you, and 
you shouldn't feel bad 
about it. I'm here to 
solve your problems and 
I won't laugh - promise! 




• Th*m Bra planty or word pn^cBaaAv* atrMilJibIa ror IhB CPC. 
■ikI PMv(«jTt i« on* »t tha b*at. 1^ you wMnt ono ror fm, 
howavBr. hava a nimmaga irt tiia fublte Oortialrt! 



them we mentioned m the review but what 
about if I told you you could have a word pfo- 

Dessor for free' At least, lor ]ust the pnce of the 
disk. Don't worry, I'm not suggesting we dress 
in striped jerseys and hnodi over a software 

store - far from it. There are progiammers out 
tbere who are more than wiUmg for you to have 
theii software for fiee' You've probably seen 

the AA public domain pages, well, public 
domain is softwaie which the author has said 
can be given away hee to anyone who wants a 
ODpy. And there's %me very good programs in 
the public domain too. 

All of which means that its possible for you 
to get a word processor entirely for fieet And 
now a little diversion. In the nasty Old world of 
business computing, one wford processor shines 
out for all others and that WP is Wordstar, Used 
smce times immortal, WotdStat 
IS the de facto standard fask 
your mum..:) for fast and aocu- 
:ate test manipulators 
everywhere. In fact. WordStar is 
available for youi CPC but it 
costs a whoppmg £&0. Guess 
what? There's a PD version of 
PferdStar for your CPCi 

Well lor version read 
clone, lor the VDE word proces- 
sor is an almost exact copy of 
WordStar with name changes to 
protect the innocent and. even 
setter, no prioe tag. aJl you'D pay 
■5 for the price of the disk it's on 
■ind the postage involved wing- 
.Dg It your door, Now, whai's 
your neitt qiiestion? 

"Vtfliat's the dififerenoe 
between machine coda and a 
BASIC program?" 



Ab. t2iat old chestnut Machine code consist of 
the actual values your computer is mstmctai;) by 
in order to do useful and hm taslcs like word 
processing and playing games. Because tie 
machine zsa. understand th^e value instruct 
tJDDs directly, it can respond to them very 
quickly inde^. 

Problem is. when the average human is con- 
fronted by a lot of wtiat appear to be jumbled 
numtiers. they curl up m disgust (I Know I do...}. 
To get around this problem, incredibly dever 
lab-coated boffins came up with the idea of the 
High Level language'. Don't wouy. alJ this 
means is that all the number instructj>ons aie 
coded into commands tbat you and 1 can [hope- 
fuUyl understand. 

To program, all you bave to do is type in tbe 
correct command, the conyiuter converts it into 
the number instructions mentioned earUer. and 
then performs whatever action these number 
uistructions ana teOins it to do. 

Seveial peoctoluive invented high levey laji- 
guages m an attempt to maite them better than 
those already available One of ihe first was 
COBOL, then came Fortran and soon after, 
BASIC (the one used inside your CPC]'. BASIC 
stands for Beginners' AE-puipose Symbolic 
Enstruction Code and oonsists of simple com- 
mands that look just hke oidinary English whidl 
can be used to program computers 

Time foi an example. Let's say that you 
wanted to print your name on the screen 10 
times. YoLi'd need a command to do the actual 
printing and you'd also need some ooimnands to 
make this command pnnt 10 tunes. I^e pro- 
gram to do this tben oould be 



FOR A:i to IB 
FRM 'Uni h 

fast!' 
mi A 



! taming iUui conpuUng 



The first hna says "we want to perform an oper- 
ation len times pleaa«" The second says "ptini 
tliis tine" and the third says 'if you havent 
already prmted it ten times, go back and prmt it 
again.'. Bight that's not too difficult is it? Usmg 
machiae code however, the necessary instnic 
ttons might looh something like tlus 

mm 

23 

?1 

Cfl ?9... etc, etc 

The first line tells the machine where the char- 
acters to display are stored, the second fetches 
a byte, the third and fourth print it on the screen 
and so on. and we haven't gone into getting the 
Une 10 be printed into the computer's memory, 
or wrhat to do when ail ten lines have been 
printed We haven't set up a counter eitber. 

You can see Lhen that using a bigh level lan- 
guage la Ear easier than grapphng with ma<:hme 
code. It is possible to use machine code, and m 
the future you vnll want to leam to use it too, 
but for now. stick with BAEIC (and especially 
my tutorials...!. 

David has several more questions but HI 
have to answer those next month or no-one else 
Will g&. a turn! 



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AMSTRAD ACTtOM May 1 991 



BEGiHNERS' HE 







Ticked off 

Rafat Sai {who signs himself 'my Mgg&st fanl' - 
anyone want to challenge him?) wants to know 
".., where I could get a good book on BASIC 
from..." and " ...why, when my friend 
Christopher give me his games to borrow, so(]f e 
don't load on my computer, l9 my machine bro- 
ken or does it neeii special treatme^nt?" 

There are so many books expiaining how to 
use BASIC, it's a Mttte difbcult to recommend 




■ Ib loading 9«in«« sivincp yvu gip? Vour h«ad« may hm 
out of alignmiHit. No, you don't rwitd * doctor, but ^tnif 
loc^ai el^^trical »tar* rnay b« abl* to hvlp! 



one above anotlier, especially when ihey'rs all 
so expensive. My advice is to cij,t aJong to youi 
nearest lihraiy and have a gnib about on their 
shelves. AH libraries will have a leaat one or two 
books aboiit BASIC and if they don't, they'll be 
atole to order one for you. 

In this way, you'U get a hook to use along- 
side my tutorial and it won't cost you anything - 
aad that's get to be good, pocket money being 
what it is these days I 

As for the software problem, you 
don't say wh&ther the it's with cassette 
tapes, disks Of cartndges. [ suspect how- 
ever, it's the formei, The pioblem with 
usmg oUie; CPCers' software is that the 
heads Oil voui cassette player might b« 
slightly out of alignment stoppmg the 
machma from reading what's on the 
tapes propeiiy Hang on a mmuie. head 
alignmem - what's that? 

In order to read data hom cassette 

tapes, ihie cassette player built into your 

machine has somethmg called a 

read/wnte head'. Its a httl€ obbng- 

shaped piece of meial which, when held 

agamst cassette tope, can sense where 

programs aiid data aie, read them and 

pass tlieni to the computei. 



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: i?i's have a httle recap over those things you 
learned last month. First there were variables, 
remeniber those? Vanables aie labels that can 
have a value assigned (jo them, and that value 
Crin be added, subtracted and so on from the 
values of other variables or ordjnaiy riurnbers. 

Voa also learned that printing hnes of text 
"'Ti the screen only worked if the teict was 
enclosed by inverted comniias ('|. This was to 
le]] the DomputeT that it should print what is 
enclosed by the inverted commas, rather than 
trymg to evaluate it and this was demon- 
stTdted by PfllHT Mex says hi, which 
fjroduced OOO and PRINT "Alex says hi" which 
produced Alex says hi. 

Anything contained within inverted com- 
mas by the way, is fanown as a 'String', For 
example, "2CVs aie aita", "eyelash curlers 
make a gul !ook good" and "'wonde? where 
I'm gouiQ for my hols" are al3 examples of 
strings. Let's talk a little more about strtivgs 

Hi* string's the thln^E 

SuiJigs aie siiinais of chs!,jctors, and ilie chai* 
actetK can be numbers, tetters, glyphs such as 
♦ and • and » and so on, m tect. anything 
f?xoept the string indicator itseU (')., 

Now you know what variables are and ycw 
also know What strings are. Let's combine the 
two to ptoduce soinethiiig useful, Typ© in this 

■ 'len type the statement 

PRINT "Petrol is a shockini nite. U 
costs '; p«tro]; * pounds ftt gallon!" 



After typmg Enter or Return. youTl siee 

Petrol is a shot^king pries. It costs I 
FoutmIs per gallon! 

Because we've assigned the price of petrol to 
a variable, we can manipulate it easily, but we 
only need to put the variable name petrol into 
any statement in order to print its price. Try 

YUm Mf I bought three gallons, it 
uould c^ost ne a uhopping *; petroiK3; " 
pounds, and that's an aMful lot!" 

After pressing Enter of Relum you'll -see 

If I kught thref gallons, it iioulil 
cost Ns G pouMs, arid that"^ an awful 
lot! 

As w^ as having strings and variables, we 
can combine the tvtfo to create^ a 'stiiog vari- 

ahle\ Try ibis 

petroll:*££" 

then type 

FRINI 'Da you knoti hou nuch a gallon of 
pttrol c&sts for bh 2CU? 'j pHrolt "! 
A hggt aAcunt!" 

Press Enter or Return and you'll see 

bo ^ou knov hou nuch a gallon of petrol 
costs for 1*1) ^V^ £2! fi \m$t Aitount! 

What is that 'S' sign'' Why do you sometimes 
use semi-Qolons and sometimes miss them out 
altogether'' Ah. that's the subtect lot next 
month's tuLDrial...see you then! 




• Vou HMti l*«irn (& proigFam in BASIC with QtW 
of th« many booki Btfailabla ttom eom|>ut*f 
boDkB.toras. ilill«rrMtllv«ly, r*«<l my (utorl«l[ 

The pioblems start when the head doesn't come 
mto oantan w\(b the tape correctly. It's sup- 
posed to touch the tape at nn exact mgls and if 
this vanes, even shghtly, data cannot be read 
properly. Of course, if the data is written to tape 
at the wrong angle in the first place, then only 
the machine which wrote the {lata wiU be able 
to read it back again. 

Here's how to find o^t if it's your'e or your 
friend's cassette that's at fault, ^rst. use a "wet" 
cassette head cleaner (available from any record 
store) to remove any nasta« that have accumy- 
laiad an tlie head- Then tiy loading some 
commerciaJ software, a game for example. If 
that works, try saving some data say. a httfe 
Basic program onto tape, then reading ft hack 
gain on Christopher's computer 

If youi CPC passes all the tests, but 
Christopher's can't read the tape you made and 
his can't lead commercia] stuff either, then his 
cassette is faulty. If, however, your CPC fails 
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knackered. (Pardon my French ') 

Fortunately, conecting head aligtunent is a 
very sunply operation winch can be achieved at 
home. Unfortunately, it's not for httle chaps like 
yourself, sc get youi mother or father to take it 
to an eleetncal repair store where rt can be re- 
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having a bug in proc^am, SomtiMig 
is going wrong st^mBWhere, bui 
where exactly remains a mystery. 
The probEem is. that no matter bow weU 
SEtiucttued the program is when you Stan, it 
invariably eaflls up lookijag liie a plate of 
spaghetti. Finding wbw& the enor laes can be a 
bit of a nightmare-, Wouldn't it be wonderfui to 
an way of seeing what happens wbete, wtthout 
baTing to painstakinglv search through every 
su^lfi lins in tbis ytiuyidin? 

That's exacttr wbat Xt^mcjcref^x sets out to 
do. It will search through your BASIC programs 
in an Lostant, exanuning the lijies for you, and 
producing a refeteQce table of the results. This 
results table is comprised of tvo sectioos. The 
first is an alphabetical Usi of variables along 
with the line jaumbeTS in which they appear. 
Further to this hues where a vaiiahle may be 
changed are maiked with an asterisk, to indi- 
cate that it's a place where thtogs are especially 
liJcely to go wrrong. 

Next a li$t of all the tines which access other 
lines is shown, le all the GOtOs and COSUBs. 
This shows up lines which may be jumping to 
the wrong plajce. or for the wrong reasiOQ. 



Kwihei/x\& easiei to use than it is to say- Wben 
loaded you're prompted for a Glenaiue. Bung tbe 
disk with the troublesoroe program inio the 
drive, lap in the filename and olf it goes. It 
Kjunts thiowgh tbe program lines at a fair old 
wbaclt, a 6K program takes arounS 2S seconds 
to process. When finished you're asked whether 
you'd hke to £ee the table on-saeeu, have a 
hard oppv prfnted out, or to save the table onto 
disk- 
Hard copy is probably the most useM, You 
can have it by your side as you re-examine the 
listing, but of course not everybody has a 
printer. Tbe disk ou^ut version is a standard 
ASCH file, and can be loaded into a word pro- 
cessor lor future reference. 

Just bow useful is all this though? WhUe 
there's no doubt that it is capable of helping 
tiace oertam enors, it by do means is guajan- 
teed Io crack all bugs, " 

The £13 piioe tag may ptove to be pfo- 
hibitive for a progtam which appears to do so 
Lttle. Though undoubLedly useful in oertain 
instances, it's unlikely to be the sort of thing 
you'd buy until you actually came across a 
seemingly unsolvable probleirL 

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XJ' games. This is 
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on what's happenin' 
in the games scene. 
News, previews, 
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all here! 

PREDATOR 1 COMPO 

Scare Uve iivrng dayliglii? out of your Uttle 
btiMsts 3nA Sisters with this bnUiMit pnze 
flrotiQ Imagewofksl To eeJebrate the immi- 
ustA release ut PiedaWi 2. we have i. fuH 
head tt" shoulclers Pied&iDT mast and gloves 
10 give away (Unfortunately you'll Iwwe to 
do without the doakmg device. } 

The kit CKines ali the way from the States 
- It's not available in this country. Its mod- 
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very realistic! Ainghhti! 

As well as tMs fantastic top prize, we 
aiKi have ten runner-up piiras - a oopy of 
the Predator 2 game plus T-shirt {so you'd 
b« bstter off muting your size and whether 
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Send youf ^ncrtes Co: 1 want a \&C^ lUte a 
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, 2BW And no cheating! Only one entry per 
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you don't the Predator will come round to 
your house and chew your face off.] 

And to enter, bU you need to do is 
answer these three simple (ruestions-. 

1 , Wkat's Ike Prvrfotar-'B id«a sf a 
good tim*? 

(oj A g«nile punt down iKe river? 
|b| A cup of cocoa and a wppy film? 
\c\ Rippir>g your lungs oul? 

1. Why d««« Ml* Pir*d«l»r com* 
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|a| He needed ivvo more iao voucfvers fof bit 

jQl oF l6ad<ry&tal rumblfirs? 
jb) Just Celt like change really, oftar oil, Alpho 

Centuri geb boring offer a while? 
jc) To skin pwple gliv* and honig them Itwti 

tree*? 

3'. Whmt do»f lh« Predotvr uf« hi* 
cl«<ikin9 d*vi<e toft 

\(t\ Celting into the pictures withoul poying? 
|b| Slipping Irtio the giHi' changing room? 
|c} To ineak up behind people fO he can iinpole 
them tfiroMgh tke gjijzord with Ki» prong;? 



PREDATOR II 

The beast is back' The Predator, that evil space 
alien whose idea of fun is to go on a human 
head hunt, bas revisited Earth, and this tuoe 
he's chosen the city laUier than the jungle bo 
stalk his prey! 

YoL play Harngain. the cop who's to be the 
eventual killer of the Predator. The proi^in is 
that the aty has become a war ground foi riva] 
drug- barons So the first ihmg to do is^ engineer 
some kind of oease-fire l>etween the rrvaJ gajigs. 
(And what better way that by kilting ail the 
gang members') This is done on the city streets. 

Next you pay a little visit to a Colon:U)ian 
drug baron, Yep. there's more MLin' to be done 
here as you persuade people to think (lom your 
point of view 

The third level is set in a subway. Here you'll 
see the Predator for the hist tune (m the first 
txiuple of levels he's camouHaged). 

The final leva! t^es place in su abattoir, 
where there's a big showdown with the big 
beast. Cushions at the ready! (To hide behind, 
not throw at him!] 




The oomputei version of the yet-to-bd- 
released Blm is due from Imagewoiks soon. But 
we've brought you the best preview of all - the 
Doveitape on the front or this is^ue coniain$ the 
whole of Level One for you to try. What a treat! 



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• SAu// and C^ossbones is a swash- 
buckling arcade bash where there's 
pirates to (ight and wenches to aave 
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DIZZY IN A PANIC 

Fans df Dozy, everybody's favou/lie bq^. will he 
pleased to hear that the budget star is soon to be 
maJiimg an appeeis&iKe in a i\€vt gitne. 

The Qsms is a eptn-off horn the cartoon adven- 
tuies. Instead of wandering aaoss a magic 
landscape resoiing vanoiis yolk foils:, this is a pu2- 
zler. i^SLnic Di2zy (oikiws ttie tteutl of the 
{te(aUV0ly) recent spate of those games that 
rec[uiT« fast reactions, faster (eflejifta and the abil- 
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U's raUier similar to ttiose uitelUgenc9 tesis 
where you have to put the ocvTieci-shaped pegn 
UltO the oonesponding holes Things are tnckier 
than that, though - the shape? fall from the $kv 
iiom. er. sha|)e-pioduciiig machmes. A conveyer 
bell at the bottora d tb« saeen is punched with 
holes, nnd can be moved left and right. It needs to 
be positioned 50 ihat the shapes [all through the 
holes Sounds straightforward: enough sull, but the 
tricky thing is that to get anywhere in the game, 
several shapes need lo be dropped simultane- 
oujly. Urkt 

More news on the Diizy front: another 'real" 
Dizzy adventure is being worhed on at the 
mament. and is due out later this yeai. Yip! 



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WHAT'S HAPPENING 

I <lon^t like it, Corruthers, it's too quiet... 

Weil, it certainly has been o quiet month. 
Things appear to be settling down after the 
Christmas trananzo. The only new entry is 
Gremlin's Turbo Chutknge, ond thcrt's o game 
that's been knocking around for o couple of 
months, waiting for some well^deserved success. 

The budget charts ore pretty quiet too. The 
Codies ore bock in again, though, with two of 
their giont-value budget compilations* 




What a month - no fewer than FOUR mastergames! 
Honestly, you've never had it so good,.. 



TOTAL RECALL 



OCEAN 




• You *mw m dwiw an tK* AA Action Pack ]■■! i>au« - HOW T*ad th* 
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blD«ltbuBtln« film llcwic«T You Iwtt 




• An lcDn-<lriv«n rpi« piayjng mdvmtitutm 0am« wti*r*, you, I4w 

eOHnIO dtttcllu*- h*v* to mmmk. and do«troy the *vll twl«t«d ■pac* 

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nwokwU n f««lly te m •londaf . 



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# H yHt imt^ fly wi F-i A wKvn you load this program, you'll b« hatf 
wny thara fay thn tim* you finish. tt'B a simulator with m-dfa hftolM 
than an Am*tr»tf hl-!l, and mor* bF«in* than Magnu*. Haufnuspon. 



OUNBOAT 

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It flood all rifihl, but has th* 
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your special Bruce Lee 
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iased a compilation of 
martiot arts gomes, 
enabling you to kick seveR^ 
shades of sunlight out of a 
plethora of baddies. There j 

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»ur games to choose 
from dnd a vast array of 

bore-fisted combat nj 
our disposal. Are th 
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A bl* af a mU*4 hmg. Shinobt m4 
DynaMiff* Dux arm OK, kut th* *th»r 
tw9 i»9 na» Hrrlkir intpind. Still tt't 
btftter rtidn a kttk in Mi*„ fys, fbrt'i 
quitm «Bawgh «l fftof - f rf. * 



Dynamite Dux 

Wi*lw)TTif> 10 ruwsvjiie, The Ninjfi killBrs have lo 
taJse a had/, soai far ttiis: game, and aie replaced 
with then cartoon raunterpsirts - dangerous 
ducks, 

Bin and Pin are the names dl the two heroes 
of tlu5 tale, and what a pair they are! 

The; plot is tenaikably similar to that of 
Double Dmgon. as is the game styie The eml 
Aduclia tm b^n up bo soma fowl (iui hai| 
pjay, and has stobo IitUe Lucy. Bin aivd Pin's 
bestesi Tnend in tlie whole wade woild, 'GdM 
Let's get 'em*, they cry. aitd set out with ib«ir 
phenomenaUy Ug fists and senous attiiudes to 






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4 Oin prepares himself wilh a magB-pawor 
ptirichj waiting ror the ri^ht rnorminl butora 



• A»cW tt't th« tnw*«h»f» of th* itvu-um moo**' 
b*adft, fMw*r up *iii'd d««l wklli 'vm Bin, Lu«y 

dispatch A<±acha. Ob, and rescue Lucy wbile 
th^'ra at>mit it. 

Thfl acttofl scrolls horizontally with tlie 
oocasiofial vertical scroUy bit. Baddies id vari- 
ous degree? of cwteness maKe theii way 
towards trou, aod you either whack 'eiti with 
your bis gtcnrea or pick up a weapon and waste 
em. Treasure can be picked up along the war. 
as can energy-replemsfong cakes and sweets. 
Powei can be built up by holding the Fue but- 
ton ptss&ed ^ la E-Type, making Bin and Pui 
aie more than a match foi the big end-ol-level 



HINJA WARRIORS 

Apajt fiom havmg a completely dali n^. 
^guJe in worn pohUds, Mot oriy ^^^ ^ 







• surround.* by - h«««hbp..k.«d .«»«*'. 
troubl* " 




tuey ronie across and evenwally assassinate 
Sg bad BMigler bimseU Now the qi^^on 
^aie asking yourseU is this: I! yo^ havethe 
J^inology w inate android killers, what kind 

out with? Panicle beam acoeletatofs^ 
"^^ nudaar fi^cn generators? Qoad 
pl,otan deatn ^ons7 «^^«^J«^^^^ " 
^u give them kmves ^n^m. ^^l^^^ 
U gui^s inaie their way ^oss the horizon^ 
Zi^LmQ screen- yoti have to take the^ 
™t with a weu.^mied 3wipe o( your blade. 
You also have at your disposal a ^^^'^'^^ 
STof rather weedy .huriken, which, alow you 

to avoid those close encounters, ^ ^ . . 
A poor Kong Fu Master clone at be^. bu^ 

enougrpuling power to keep you interested 

for a while at least. 

Duff graphics and poor gamepla?, combine 

to make Uiis game one of the mm hanalesaly 

banal tiil^ in y^aiB. 



despised by Uw world s popolaUon. but to 
Lmnal connections have kept bis P^ue^ 
!Zre 01 at least untU he messed with a 
mCentLt fencw .m^ Mulk t^ere d« 
thev oet those wonderful names?! 

Mulk. being the outrageously spifly gee^r 
that hs is. has Dome up with a eolation to 

Nah A candlelit dinner with ^^-if J^ff^^J 
S er, possibly,., but no, in^iead^MulR has 
oome up with two cybametic, nigh^on mde- 
fu.1^^ Nliiia warriors. Bight on dudes! 
(Well it had to be the obvitjys solution.) 
^ lil^ion is hasicaBy to kill everythmg 




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ACTION TE 




• Avoid Uw riHMW* ri*»dA, awaM tlw ' 
•poyi, trnt, ifHdy, lonhr> iton't «wAld th« •jrtr* 



njormfiTs [roTD kung-lu iand 

The giaphics are absolutely excellent, veiy 
caitoon^ ajfid Oiftrageously cut& ScmUiiig is 
super-smootll, and only the ladl of decent 
sounds lets down tiie pr^entaoon, Qsmsplaij 
is simple and good tuit. aJtbough ii borrow; 
b&tt?ily from oUiar games in the tning-fu genre, 
and It IS marred oniv bv the ffi'Ct li^si^ ^e game 
is a UtOe easy to complete, Hanng said Uiat, it 
is almost defimielv the basi game on the com- 
piJatioD. and by a \ong way. A total big iaff, 
dudes. 



DOUBLE DRAGOM 2 

Billy and Jimmy aie two nghteously ooc*! 
dudes, so you can inia0ine how upset they 
gm when the boss o( the local gang sends 
out some fienchmen to muider BiDy's best 
girl, Manac Decidedly miffed, they set out to 
awervge hot death - which is as much excuse 
as you need for the ensuing Fampage of 
tmriidless destruction- KM. maim, torture.. , 
and generally make life difficult for the nasty 
gang of kung-fu downs. 

BiUy and Jinimy can opciais as a team or 
wojit aJfine, but you Will find it easier if you 
tahe youi broUiei along as bacit-yp TTie 
action sctoUe honzontally from right to left, 
and vanouB baddies with tlieii own suengths 
and weaknesses wander into youi Dying fists 
and feet, Ic ss possible to dimti ladders and 
gain aacess to ledges and ptatfbrms to avoid 
the biddies, but the teat psychopaths 
atiwH igwi you Will pieCei to wade m and deal 
double death with deft deKterity. 




9 pti rt^i It's * fHiitch-up iwt L*90l9n<l1 Th* 
Doidtl* [>rafian brothers hav« tilh«ri to (b* 
ftr*«ti to •VWn^e th^ death of Ihair girl. 



SHINOBI 




: Shmobi is a Japanese woid. ji mem liter^ 

, a^y to steal in", and shinobi/utsa is the art ol 

sieajik Stealth is the tiademark of a Nmja 

assassin, and so it m stealth which is re<iuifed 

to: success in this game. 

The Sega com^p made il£ way onto the 

|Setr'^"'^^^^'^^'^^^^-^^-- 

Joe Musa^hi is a rocjt-haid Wmja who i^ 
I hfiTOg a little trouble ivith a tot^y nasty 
dudB called Swah Foo. BwaH Foe is angry 
and not ,ust because he has a pathetic nil' 
He wants money, and m order to get some he 
has kidnapped lot* of young pupife from tlie 
i local Mmja sclioot (not too heavy on pbt this 
onej. He has demanded a ransom tot the safe 
return of said Nmja sptoglmgs. Joe, however 
Jias other ideas.,. 

Being... with a well-timed ^jnja somer^ 
sauu. he spmgs into actton and se^ about 
the task of rescuing rhe brats, ft is all stancfard 
^ng fu fare, only the joy of close-quarter 
fighting t$ replaced by shunken-throwmg The 
platform element m this game is more impor- 
^t than the beating and kicking, and adds 
greatl]^ to ihe tfi^rlte and spUis. Extra weapons 
ui the form o| little rockets) are gajn^ by coh 
lecung selected sprogs. After three separate 



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End-of-levei nasties with spedal 
talents pop up from time to time, and are gen- 
erally huge and incious. Bemg picked up by a 
huge goon and pununeUied meralessiy to 
death is not a fun way to go, BW you're no 
cissy yourself, and you can dish it out too. You 
have the usual range of moves avatlaJaJe... 
and a couple of really bmtal tricks Uke the 
Glasgow Kiss and the super spinning cyclone 
lack 

Sounds good so far? WeU, sony. it's actu- 
ally a bit duff, The graphics are slow and 
blocky, the sound borders on the pathetic, 
and the gameplay is alifiOlutelK diabolical, The 
characters' tesponse to the joystick is about 
as fast as a slug breakdancmg in tt&Bcle, and 
this makes Uie game a hundred times more 
dtfhcult than it should be !>ouWe Dragon fJ in 
the arcades was better then DDl. but on the 
Amsuad Che first version la stiLl the best. 
What a turkiey! 

Nobody really CAim what happened to 
tiieir girlJnend. and hanliiy. ti s a bn suspi 
cious, what with them being btothers. and 
sharing one girlriend and alL 



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Wtolt. - ,h«( s«,ord wool hetp him m.*. 

sections you meet an eud-of level baddie - for 
example, a whirling hurricane Winja or heli- 
copter gunship. 

The Arastrad version is fast and reason- 
ably smooth, and contains most of the 
eJemencs found ui the original arcade gme 
The graphics are colourfuf and well designed 
and the overaU effect es helped by decent 
falihoygh far from perfect} scrolling. Sound i 
a bit weal^. but if you can live with tjiai mmw 
niEigle, then what you have is a very g^cu. 
rateJif converted and enpyabie arcade 
rcmp-o-ra. and a cool beai-em-up 

fienierober.. stride hard and fade away. 



DOUBLEDRAGON 2 61% 

SHINOBI 78% 

NINJA WARRIORS 7!% 

DYNAMITE DUX 88% 

VERDICT ^ 



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t^Hito ha* hi* haaaball cap on. bo h« mutt m#aii butiin«ts.. TK« bl«cli*4-4%ri: mr#tnt t>l 1h« n-crvwn 
•r* Utm blia h> haan'l ■■plar*d yat, aa lh« n«*(y (making i|««i*r b*hlnd him may b* th* l««al et Ilia 



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p4n4*dfi'a a dllanifna.,, ahvuld h« jum^ n4ili( V 
go gsl uim* Maiv* Bfi^rgvi firvtf 

way. and slI exactly Che same speed - in fact, tbe 
only discemibie vaiiatioEi is the flight lack o( 
colotu on the CPC, but this does not. aEFect 
gameplay, and baieiy detracts froni iha gmplii- 
cal app«aJ of thie game. 




GREMLIN GRAPHICS M £10.99 cass, £14.99 disk 



Switctjjjladie wa;s stunniag on the <»{)- 
sol& - but what can the 'cndinaiy' 
CPC maliB of Gremlui's epic hidt-eni- 
up? 
But fast,., the pilot. You are Hlro, th« last of 
Ha Bladeknlgtits, a laystatlous band of waxrfois 
who diew thflu jist incQiufiidQFsble power from a 
sword caUed the Fireblada, The swotd has be«n 
d^troyed by the totaUy evil and 
bogti? dude, Havok. You, 
beiog a miaist nghteous cool 
bombie, decide that it is 
time someoiie taught 
'Es.vdk a little lesson in 
manners. Apart from 
your incredible martial 
an$ stalls, you hiave oiie 
distinct advantage oviei the 
enemy... you have a biomc ann. lo 
wMct you can attach a wide variety of 
weapons 

YoiiJ quest is to lecovei the missing aag 
ments of the FirebUde. and when it is 
la-asseiabled, use it to destroy Havoli. Tbera «e 
16 fragments in aU, and the area they are hidden 
ta ia absolutely vast. The saeem does not scroll 





povvaC'UPt but th*T« may b* mat. a.t%tn hhMan 
h ■ h lnJ Ui* cjfat«». 



as you go exploriiig, but 'Clips' a screen at a 
ttme. And until you enter a room or chamber, in 
i6 m datlmeM - so you don't taow what's wait- 
ing foi you. 

(Odc« entered, a room wit remain visible for 
the rest of the game) 

Huo IS a small but very athletic spnte, with a 
neat line In physical violence His variety of 
ktmg fu moves are tzontrolled b^ the FSra button 
- tJne length of the press dictstJng the stresg^ 
and type of the blow. Thi baddies area't 
parttcutaily hard, but ihey do 
aop up in the most inl' 
rating places, 

hamperuig progress 
and geixeralty mess- 
ing with your happy 
thoughts. 

There are many 
bonuses, bidden fea- 
tures and secret rooms 
io discover, and bnding 
everything there is to ftncl will be an enormous 
iasHi, Progress, however, is quick and linear, 
with the sheer size of the gams being your maiii 
obstacle. 

The graphics are superb, with wonderfully 
detailed sprites which aie full of chaiaciei and 
beautifuliiy animated. The backdrops are well 
done, and convey the apocalyptic atmosphere ol 
the game very well Sound is outstanding, with 
meSandioly tunes playing thioughout ilse game. 
The real quality of the game, though, is in its 
I^yability. and m this department Switchblade 
is a beaut, 

One point that should be made is the com- 
parison between this standaidissd veision, and 
the supposedly advanced oooaok/Plus version. 
The CPC version is remarkable for being very 
nearly as good as ita cartridge-baaed big 
brothel. Both versions ptlay in exactly the same 



Totally fabulous liiis one. 
and a real treat for all the 
lealDUG obsG'Tvets ot the 
console scene Vail are 
gonna have a big lurve for 
this game. Sbalw it baby 
shalse it. 
(Frani's Scottish - Ed 




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SWniCHBUDE 

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The "dfob" colo^Mt mil it i*^t. 

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Eehf Gekl Skweek! Skweelil H s atud: 
of the cudfilies ajgajn. as Skweelc and 
tus just as cuta chum Sfcrouch Ixave to 
battle it out with the evil aiieas vfiK) 
iltSiSt cm painttDg their home plauel Mud. 

The plot goes somethiing like this: st^ce 
aliens tLBve invaded the home pjanet and 
painted lots ol it blue, Quite wby tbe aliens have 
done such a thing is a bit of a juvstjery. (Ifs a bsi 
liie the MagaC Boundabout movie Dongal ajid 
tbe Blue Cat. whete Bimon tbe powei-aa3«<l 
feline bas stmilai true blue idea^.j (Yes. m 
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• Up in Um «lr. Th« lift* Uh« you to eUmrwIU 

iHHwachabI* tcrvfnt th«t «ri« r«i»«>0 mttovm lh> 
mtrmal jtlaying •cr*4n, Tf tad; caretuUyl 



Anyway, our heroes aren't going to stand for 
this nonsecise^ They're daternuin^ to paint 
every patch of soiled ground tacli to its natural 
pink. Tbe task is not wltbout its problams, 
though. The world that the Quff-balls live m is a 
ianci of pavi|ig-?tone land in outei space. You 
can waUs ove: the mulu-oolouied paving stones 
{this very a« is what causes them m reven bacK 
to their OTigmal colour}, hut tbei« a;e raised 
walls in tbe vnf. and even sheet clrops mto 
notbingness! (And there suent «ven salety bai- 
Tiers to prevent the twe falling to their doomi) 

You may think that's qijite enough to con 
tend with, but nof These aliens haven't actually 
d^erted tbe planet or anything. They're stiU 
there in dtoves - so you d better watch your 
step, hadnt youE 



pIflV OJl hi* Own 
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Thl« B«fi«'at«' 
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A th*«F 
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a<rn< Thg bp^#VI Doo'1 HPiK 

«tii4(id*itwt»n aftieihii' 



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Tf1m~ all bad- 




SUPERSKWEEK 

LORICIEL m £9.99 cass^ £14.99 disk 



So far It sounds pretty sunilar to the original 
Slcweeit. but plenty of refinements have been 
made. The levels ate wider for a start, so there's 
a greater playing area. There's a very large vari 
ety of pidt'Ups, with effects ranging from the 
shghtly annoiying - such a;s reversed controls - 
to the jolly good (e,g, extra lives and automatio 
compledon of the level you're on). The two char- 
eeterg play simultaneously, too (not 
oo<mpetltively as you have a common aim), 
though you can chase after the same goodies. 
And if you can't find the paitinilar thing you're 
after, you can buy it trom the shop (You get 
spending money hy killiag the monstera.) 

So do the impTovements ac:tueilly improve tbe 
game? Wellaciually. er .. no. 

The laige variety of pich-ups is almost too 
large. There are so many of the damned things 
that Its difficult to remember what the icons 
r^resent, StUl, practice maJses perfect.,. 

And the more ihaf^s on screen at one time, 
the slower the wrhole game moves if there's a 
lot going on the whole tfung slows down to a 





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Twfl can ptay at qnra 1<jr *xtra (wn- Sh**k l« 
•tiowlng all twllh a pDwar-up h« Ju«l foynd, 
whit* ttrwwh 4o«a a^m* «ol»4ifbig fni 

really crushmgty dull pace. 
That's not to say it's complete tiipe, though - 
there are still plenty of challenging puzzles to 
muddle your brains, And some of the new fea- 
tures that have been added are coot too. 

So although there's loore to this f oUow-up, it 
simply doesn't hang together io guile the 
same way that the original did 

The prohiem wiih sequels is 
iha% they always have a pte^ 
deoessoj to try to upstage. 
And when, as m 
Superslcweek's case, 
they faffl to Uve up to 
those expectations, the 
disappointment felt about 
the less than briUlant game 
is even mora pronounced. 



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dd ih« duck is a worldfautious supe:- 
^tar And it's high linift hfi hdd his own 
TV 3«iies, lattiei than rnerely present- 
ing other {lesser) nars progiammes 
ftfiffl Ehe broom cupboaid. (Bit below his station, 
reatiy,] 

Well now It's happened ZM has taai&f qp^ 
his own accjon-packed show. It stars Edd (who 
else?} and foEows his escapades through the 
vanous departiKienLs oi the Beeb tyes, it is a low 
budget program). 

It's ail interesting format Edd has to collect 
all the stars that have been littered aiound each 
sefc!aaa Set against him is Wilson the butler 
{ywt only ever see his hand) and his cionies 
Luddly they moire m pre-detennined patterns, 
and while they're not easy to dodge, their move- 
ments am he predicted. 

Edd has fDUt takes' in which to oompJetie 
this task 11 Edd is touched by one of the baddies 
then another take is used. When he gets 
touched tor the fourth tune the show's over, 

EM the DdcJf looks and plays 
very much like i^t'f 
Island - It's the same vti 
Ileal tower of screens 
that need t^ be scaled, 
with the dynamic duclf 
having to chmt 
upwaids and onwards 
W3 complete this task. The 
graphical style is similar too. 
the theme being rata and cuddlj? 
throughout. The way the monsters move, and 
even the star-ooUecting element, bears more 
than a passing resemblaeioe 
to the coin -op dassic. 

Edd has to jump 
his way horn, plai- 
form to platform 
chodsmg a route 
that takes hun 
ever higher while 
he's at it. Twent'j 
s:taj;s need to he col- 
lected to allow entry to 
the next level but. on the fiist ieve) anyway, 
there are one or two 'spaiS' Stars so you can 
afford to ignore the more difficult ones. 

Ettd's adversanes are headed by Wilson the 
butler. They followed preset movement patterns 
which can be studied. Edd is armed with a 
snowbaH-shOHDiing devioe, which he can use to 
freeze his enemies for a few seconds. (There's 
no kilhn' in this game ~ boo!) 
When they're stunned. 
Edd can move 
thioiigh the baddies 
without oonung to 
^y liann. And s& 
they fiequently 
guard the oh-so 
imp^tant stars. 

there's plenty of stunning 
to be done. 

Edd'« movetrtflnt is easily controlled, he can 
be moved to the left oi nght as he jumps or fells 



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and doesn't gee 'Mied' when 
plummetmg earthwards for too great a distance. 
The graphics are cute. 
Even the piranha fiah lock 
ffsendly enough, and 
Edd IS iiiunediateJy 
recognisable as the 
'elevision charac- 
lei Sound is 
hmiied m the main 

to jumping, collect- 
mg and Bhwting 
type noises, but there is 
a rather joUy little tune that 
accompanies the title screen. 
Edd {he Diuc* resembles^ jfainiww Jslm^s a 
little to closely, but is not as good a game either 
technically or in game design - there are no 
powerups for instance, and the game isn't quite 
as smooth or addictive as the com -op. 

Taken on its own mertts 
though, it's plenty j^yable 
enough. The drfhculty tev^l 
IS about right - you won't 
finish Che game in the first 
five minutes, but youl find 
that there's enough pro- 
gression to keep you at it. 



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GRAPHICS,,,. 

Cule Oi cute can be - even 
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•low If anouqh lor fait to laap out of tha way. charts in Bnil ba>h him into bits wtlti your giant 4i*lt 
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• Bonht A itray ihol bounc** oH Ar*i4*'i 
noggin, ha, t\*t A iti*r* buli*t, it'* Ottly * (Fvah 
woun«l for tM* hombrcn 

him off, As if all this wasn't had enough, he 
finds himself invijlved in a huge plot to mess 
with the atinospheie of the newly-colonised 
Mars. You e^er had a day that jijst went com- 
pleiely to pat? 

The film mads va^t quantities of money at 
the cinema. U has only just been released on 
video, but looks alj set to clean up at the vid 
shofkfi too, Its success can be attnliuted niainlr 
ta the chansma of its star - the man himself, 
Amold Schwaraenegger - but the plot was com- 
plex and involved enough to earn it Eome praise 
from the cntics. The question is; how closet? 
does the game fallow the mood and plot of the 
film? The answer follows 




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vei Viiondei what it wouid be ims to 
live someone el.se's life? To have mem- 
ories of events you Iiave never 
experiSDoed? If you had no ni«morie5 
but those of Mother dtan, how would you know 
if someone had ^olen your mirtd? CoDfused? 
Amold Schwan&nsgqe! was. in the Mock bust- 
ing movie of 1990. 

The film goes a Eittle like this' Amie plays 
Doug Quaid, ^a ordinary blolce with an ordinaiy 
job, Doug gets dissatisfied with the hupdmm 
nature of life in genera], and decides it's time for 
a change, mstead dJ (jomg on hflliday lilte any 



noimaj human oemg. though, he nip$ down to 
the local brandli of Rekall ]m- iiekaH Ingjtant 
memories directly into the human inind. be it a 
memory of a holiday, an adventure, or even a 
week of carpet-laying ui GnmshY . , 

Rekall give Amie the memories of a 
heroic adventurer type, but as they 
implant them they discover that 
Echwaizzy's memory has already l>een 
wiped! Everything starts to go horri- 
bly wfrong, someone tries to 
assasssnate him, hss day goes very 
badly and even his wife tries to bump 




• Inaat: Ami« coutd ui« hii gun bu4 datild** l« bwiga tn and ImH Ih* iMMO ln*t**d> Malfl pie: • 
blow trom Ami*'* huge rivl It tn-ough to **n4 ih* bud guy* flying, Ttvar*'* mo*m to thia laval than 
combai, though, wbth fiv* obi^ctt to C4li#cr 



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The game scenano starts with a homontaUy* 
acroUing plaiforfln set-up. The plot IS followed 
well overall, ifiA only loosely in thia secuon, A 
great big bouticy Amie sprite tuna along 
the vanows Icvds of a complax, 
finding his way to each floor by 
means of small personnel eleva- 
toiS- OeeasionaHy, Amie comes 
acTf^s a nastie, sucb as a 
guard, a thug, or an assassin. 
These baddies can be dis- 
patched by means of a blow 
from your enormous ham fists, or 
a bullet from the huge gun you have 
in your pocket. The way is often blodced 
by batneis and laser walls, although rbese can 
be switched ofl by Mtting the nght sv/ttches. 

The ob]ect ol all this ninning, Ming and 
jiimpmg is to collect five objects you will need 
for the Tfist of your mission. These are scattered 
in pTe-detennined places around the first level 
You cannot leave the first section tmul all of 
these objects axe safely under your belt- It 
sounds simple enough, but you are only given 
one life to complete this task, and the barrier 
switches have to be lumed on and off in the 
right ordei, oi you may Dnd yomseU trapped. 

Once you have completed Level One, the 
action dianges completely. A horuontally- 
sciQlluig saeen portrays the action as you take 
over a "Johnny Cab', and bomh thiough the 
streets of the city, dodging ot shooting any ual- 
fic unfortunate enough tc get in your way Two 
factors hinder your progress here; one the fact 



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# Hiiy, Itiat dud* with th* lalld shBid** t» dlciing you miin. • u< >< mu lupanfABt Ami* cMn'l ducli 

tlllt on*, TMklfig i hit won't Cfrtl you yMJI^ llfO, thOtigh, jUkt >Dniai p^vtilOU* *iit«fgy. And tio, ybu 

e«n'l go and vimil lh« girl*... 



cbat you are being pursued by (he police fotce, 
and the other the fact that your fuel levels are 
decieasmg rapidly Fue-l can be topped up by 
shooting oil tanlteTS as you see them, but tbey 
aie generally Few and Tar between. 

Once you leach your destinatton. a ware- 
house, the acticni switches bacK to the plaifom) 
set up. You must make youi way tJuough the 
warehouse area, and escape to the local space 
poit, whete \a\ii ship lo Mars is waiting. It \s on 
Mais, you disoover that the answer to youi 
Baemory dUemTOa Ijes. The gameplay on tius 



hideout, buned deep within the bowels of the 
Martian mouneains. 

Once you have foimd yom way to the rebel 
hideout, you land on your feet once mote lot the 
fifth and final instalment of the game, and hon- 
jontaHy scrolling platform fun uncannily similar 
to the first and third levels. There ate more 
switches to deal with, and a tnilv horrific 
expanse of baddie-fHled mazji to negotiate, with 
yowr one paltry life to see you through. Only 
oonspletely haid game players will make it tlus 
far. Find the key to the heaix of a vast reactor, 




levd is more than a little similar to that of the 
last... 

...and yet niore deja-vu 

awaits you on the next 
screen, because its 
diivey time again This 
time you have to dnve 
the cab through the cav- 
erns o( Mais. The rouie 
is a little more tortuous, 
and therefore much more 
difficult this time, but 



SECOND OP1NI 

fPMif gwnvplay, fctef il*r«ff hait§t 
toftfhw wmH, WlNrfi mmr«. fPi 
ttmgk mmd rlMffviiflng, lo »'» fcwv 

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rtankly.. it is almost identical to 

the second level. Your desttnation is a rebel 



BIG ARN 

Amie's film cafc^cr started w^y ^ck in the 
'70s, in a film called Stay Hungry. In it - sur- 
l^rise. surprise - he played a body builder. 
A9lhOut|h heixiuldn'i att for toffee, hi$ 
SCTeen presence arid ckari^ma led hira 
ehiough a series oi minor roles, until in tJw 
ini{l'''QiO$ he struck it big with the box afficic 
smash TeTminatar. Frdm then an his career 
rocketed. He appeared In typically brainless 
romps such as Commanrtoand Predsifor, but 
as hi^ lame and repuLalion grew {along 
with his bank balancel, he began to gain a 
nam? for himsell in busmcss. He has made 
millions in real estate, and manied into th? 
Kennedy ctan. one of America's most influ- 
ential and important families. He bas also 



and deal with the large number of baddies who 
wiii ^ry !a stop you. You then have to fight the 
big boss's henchman one- 
on-one on a lift heading 
up towards the reac- 
tor's ooie, And tl you 
defeat him.,.? Well, 
that would be telling, 
wouldn't It? 

The graphics in 
Ocean's conversion of 
^tm^t^^i^^^ Tota! R^csli are abso- 
lutely lovely. A big. chunky 
Amie sprite nins and jumps in a most 



made a brief 
and success- 
ful foray into 
polttics! More 
rwently 

Schwarzenegger 
has appeariKl in a 
onuple of very 
well -received come- 
dies - rwm^ anrl Hindcrgartcn Cop 
- m douiJi m an attempt w 
avoid typeraistin^. 

What with his sucicess so 
far. who knows? - maybfi 
'Senator Amie' isn't all that 
tar 0H...7 /i 





got mm > car, it"w » btg as a whale, and 
II * about to Mt »*ll.., tkciilino thA trartic in 

convincing manner, and the backgrounds on all 
levels aie really nice 

Sound efJects and music are both, spot-on, 
wich a retnlK of cite film score playingi on the title 
screen, Special mention should be given to the 






■ Uh, oh, B lill mt ■ traffic ^m hana. But you 
hnu9 th& pe-rfect loliirtlon - tilaat th*jn all into 
pbllvion! 

BfiKy loading' screen, with a digitized piccie of 
Ami-e, although at a very odd angle. 
Although the game foUows a 
somewhat tied formula, it ls 
polished and flxdring enough 
to make it rank among some 
of the best filni tie-ins ever. 
A real treat, and a game no 
Arme fan can 
afford to be 
without. 



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Lovely ipnfes and bbolovi ^p ^^ XO 
backgrouncti iuif ifte game perfecit^, 

SOHKS „ WOOjL 

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feotly help tht game abn^. 

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^^CpMPETtTtON 





ven Amie Schwarzenegger would be 
diooltng over one of these! {We 
reckon, anyway.) To celebrate Total 
EecaU scoring an AA Mastergame, 
Ocean is giving away no fewer than 

five of these wee beasties to Amstrad Action 

leaders. 

The Sony WM-F2015 Coinijination Walkman 

boasts the foliovving; 

• FM/AM tuner 

• Auto shut-off 

• Normal/Metal tape 
selector 

• Belt clip 

• Lightweight 
headphones 

And that's not all. Ten runners-up wall each 
win a copy of the game itself, plus a giant fotsl 
Recall poster Briliiant. eh? 




RUNNERS-UP PRIZES 

1 copies of Total Recall 
1 giant posters! 



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5 Sony personal stereos! 

W Vn Green Plane.? 

'■•^rn'„r:;*™t^f--n.,,.,, 

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k) Russian? 

h} Don Quafd^' P'"*^* '" ^^f^l ffaca//? 
fb) Doug Shove*? 
\V Doug QuQid^ 

send it to: "^ "' "^k mactine) and 



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h«iMl •id* of tha roMl >rM] hitting, seventh gear should take you Into th* t*4d. TlM crowd r«an, 
yoyr ^rqliw flivtH nathln^ c«n ttop you now! 

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TbB tarmac blisteis in the heat cS tb& 
midday sun. You adjust youi visor in a 
vain attempt to see iJuough tJie shim- 
meniig beat. Gtaiicuig in your rear 
v\evf minoi you sftd aa approadiung Qora- 
petitor, Hitting seventh on a 
straight, vou ease away 
giving youisei! space to 
roiDve and breathe. You 
can. hear nothing but the 
sound of your ofWD hdood 
nishubo >° Youi ears, and 
tba low, alraofit subsonic 
Ouob of the massive for 
imila &ne power-pLant 
Immedlatejy bebuid your head 
There m front of you, you 3e« the flutter of the 
white flag., , |u5t one oiore lap to go, but they're 
gaining... 



gani«plav v;as httle different fnom nsost other 
games In the racing genre. The problem eny 
computer version will have \s the lack af 32-bit 
processing power, cus- 
tom giaphiffi chips 
galore, and digital 
sound. So how does 
the humhle CPC 
Dope? 

The game plays 

much hke any other 

racer Strapped 

(irmly uao driver's 

seat you teai down the 

Ltowded race track, hoping; to get as low a lap 

time as possible and, ulliinately, to fuusb in first 

Before you even begin a rac«, you mu&t (|ual- 

tfy, and in dotng so, gam a better starting 

position in the actual race Once (piahhed., youi 





• A^preachiitB ■ Bharp b«rvd, and th* giiy who 

futt ow*rlooti you )• irbout tD Nnd out lust how 
w«ll fOij r«ntll* c«fn«r«i 

Super Monaco Grand Prix, apart from being 
the most unnecessarily long title m computer 
gaming history, is a conversion of the Sega coin- 
op - one of last year's biggest arcade iiiig. The 
onginaJ coin-up was populai mainly because of 
the stunning graphics and sounds, but actual 



• Th* bultdtnq* of Hon*co lo44n lira* In 1h« 
dIttJIftC*, tMtt trMt csn't Btlapd la aH afound 
walching III* ^ifmnBry, Padai (a th* matal! 

car is entered in the ract proper, and that's 
when ihmgs start to get a httte difficult. 

The cais themselves are awesome beasts, 
capable of huge speeds, and incredible feats of 
agility, hugging comers as though they were on 
rails, Oi at least, that's what the real ones do,.. 



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You are given a choice of geai set-ups to hegm 
with, and you can choose from autoniatic, fout, 
or seven s^ed gearbo^s, Automatic is simple 
and takes some pressure off the player, but 
aooeleratioa is very slow compared to the man- 
ual fomr-speed, and even the foui-speed is a bit 
dodgy compared to the seven-speed. 

The tiacks repr^ent circuits around the 
wortd ss well as the streets of Monaco, home of 
the world-famous Grand Fris. The occasional dip 
and bill add lo the problems you will faoe, Iwit 
tbe other driveis aie tbe biggest pain You will 
find yoiuseif Toaiing through a dark tuooel 
when suddenly another car appears in fiom of 
you. And hJse the worst taxi drivei ui the world, 
he refuses to let you past, or jami you between 
his car and tbe tunnel waiL 

The control method mitJaQy seems stow and 
unresponsive, but perseverance eQ9Ure9 
progress, and you soon learn the gunks of the 
vehicle's handling. 

The graphics ate ix^teiurful and attractive, 
and quite convincmg at times. e«pecialty on 
hills. But the scroEling and screen update are a 
Hole on the jerky side. Sound consists of the 
car's droning rumhle. and a very bizarre noise 
when you overtake other cars, 

Like other cinving games, the scope of the 
challenge is limited by tbe lap times you can 
get, hui SMCP is actually more ^ to play than 
most, and lasting enjoyment can be gleaned. 
ejpeciaUy from racing fans, 

Mention should also be 
made of the totally 
savoury babe holdmg the 
place cards at the begin- 
ning of the game.. 
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Aguiicli questiion What's tSfi long, 
has bits nying off kn aU difections 
and slides iliiough tiees on its loof? 
Answer: your Tofyota, fifteen ssc- 
ooda altei youi first 90 at TojotK Cdica GT 
tlaUy. The second time ^u pbjr, if 11 ptobably 
take twenty seomds. .. 

GfeooMin's new ralty garde is mucb loofe a 
Sfaaulatar tban Lotus Espnt Tuibo CbaUeoge 
was. For a start, you're plonked m the driving 
seat ]isell for this one. You gei a view of tiie 
road ahead through youi windscreen and yooi 
also see your hands worMng the steering wbe«il 
and the gearstick to your left. So, settled in the 
coc^it. you start the erLQtii&, rev ii up, watch 
the countdown dock.. 3... 2... t...aiidGO] 

Its OK for tiifi fir^ few seconds on ;i 
straight road, but it's when you get to the 
first comer that the fun begins. Most y 
(Hiving games let you keep your foot 
to thie tlooi just about all the time, 
but not this one. Chanoes are you'U 
be taking the scenic route through 
the troes... should htavo consulted 
youi oo-dflver, shouldn't you? 

TMt's r^ht. Not only are the 
oornere the sort you get in the real 
wprld, yvu tiave a co-dnver who can 
signal their ditectLon and sharpnes'j in 




your car, you can go for the Practioe' option on 

the main menu. This lets you drive at any of the 

three international loca 

tions offered by the 

game. You'll soon 

get tired of this, 

though, and want to 

get stuck in with the 

big boys 

This 15 where it 
gms a lot tougher 
You Etait oft racing in 
the UK over a cumber or 
stages. As with real rallying, your total time is 
totted up after each stage and your rantang 
given. And, agam as with real rallying, it's not 
just a case of putting your boot down 
— ^31^^ and hoping for the best. You'ie 
^1^ going to have to do some pretty 
^^^Rj trick. conuoUed driving to stay 
j'lj ^^'^ up with the big boys m this 
competition, as lead-footed 
dnvmg vftU leave you broad 
SKiing off the trade and 
ii£htalling down the 
suaights. Each excuisioii mto 
tho scenery costs you a 
imashed wuidscr««n and a 20 
second delay. 



• Km*, W*lt tlut'a wh*l you g«t for gaing lao 
rami, iin'1 tt? Hmlfy <■ ■ raal lami ol Jud^ament, 
■hHI and cflutloni 

shifting and wheel-turnlQg are very nicely anl' 
mated. 

Sound is good too. There's a jaunty title tune 
iDacked up by ooiupetfirtt In-game dnvmg noises. 
Having aaid that, the game isn't hugely 
inspiring. There are two problems really: the dif- 
ficulty of conuollii'ig your car m The fust place, 
and the lac^ of any real adrenaUneproducuig 
eKcitemont Natutalty. (here 4te 
never any other cars on the 
track with you. aiid so your 
sole opponent is the clock. 
And given that you'13 be 
too busy trying to stay on 
the road to look at it. even 
that incentive pales 

ToYota Ceiica GT RaSJy 
IS a good 
EiiDulatar. 
but aimough it still retains a 
reial arcade feel it doesn't 
oBet a great deal of eKCite 
ment. It's cotopctent all right. 
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• Otf th* tr*ch t^iiirt, *na Dw»rit««rlna wildly.. 
Vou cun g*l It tHck t&pflthtr i1 you'r* qiilck, 
but thai nek loohi ■ l»il •olid. 

advance. 'Ydu don't see the fellow himself, but 
you do get to see signs ahead of you telling you 
what to expect. These take the form of chevrons 
consisting of one, two or three arrows... actu- 
ally, it's all a bit of a swizz. because unless you 
dedde to stick with the standard pace notes 
suppllad, you have to draw up your own before 
you tadde the stage. You do this with a special 
map of the unfolding stage, with the option of 
inserting your awn signs where you like. 

UntH you're a bit mote handy at controlling 



• H you don't hho tho stnndard paco nCrtat, 
you can provlds yau-F own wilh ihs afuvclal 
■dntnil Bcraafi ■ valla bla bafora *ich tiaga. 

Control IS either by joystick or keyboaid. It'9 
tricky in both cases, but keyboard control is the 
easiest. The game suffers a bit from the Test 
DnvB syndrome - it's almost impossible to avoid 
oontitiually escalating ovor-correctlon when 
thmgs stait to go vwong. It's not too bad In this 
^se, but bad enough. 

The graphics are very good. They're done in 
tour-oolour mode, which tneans there's not too 
much colour but there is plenty of detail. The 
scenery moves woll as you drive, and the geai^ 



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The aiaxm sounds and the cone^pond- 
ing warning tight starts to wink on the 
conifOl panel. There's an incoming 
misfite locked onto youf afterbumeTs, 
PuU back on ihe yoke and chmb. spi- 
laUing to \iy lo break tlie lock, 
dropping (kies to uy to conluse 
the imssae. Now ywt se« the 
cause of yout problem? - a Mig 
29 a couple of mcles distant, and 
he's in your sights. Now it's 
your turn to watch him try des- 
peiately to avoid yo^ 
sidewinder. -- 

Modem air vtartme is the name 
ol the game. The F-IS Fjgbting Falcon 
is a modem single-seat Bghter plane. It 
excels in dogfights, and is also opahiie ot bajnb- 
ing missions - lakiag out giound laigets wtth its 
'inteOigent' weapons system. 

Yo^ are that pilot, thete aie a variety of mis- 
siotis waiting for you, so its chocks awayl You 
could ba downmg incoming Mtgs, destroying 
advancing enemy arttllery oi taking oiit strategic 
taigets. In fact, you may choose the mission. 
Five aie ava:iable trntially. 

A sixth, Operation Conquest, is otHy avail- 
able to those who (lave successfuiiy completed 
alj tha other missions. It puts you in an aU-out 
war soenano against the enemy. The idea is to 
force Ehera to sunendei by reducing their opera- 
tionaJ capability and morale. But while you're 
talcing them out, they'll be after targets on your 
Side of the fence... 

The other options available are quidcstart. 
for those eager to get off the giound. and train- 
ing, wheie the enemy don't shoot back 




The next thing to do is set waypoints. These 
aid you m duecting you to youi targets The tax- 
gets' co-OTdinaces are punched mto the 
navigation oomputei. In flight this infoimation is 
tianstated mto a bearing to fly on, as 
well as telling you the range and 
your estimated airival time. 

Many weapons aia avail- 
ahle For air-io-air combat you 
have heat-swking Sidewinders 
and Amraam radar-guided mis- 
siles. Ground targets can b? 
taken out with a vanety of laser 
guided, mfra red and anti radia- 
tion missiles, depending on the 
laiget type If you're unsuie. you can 
ask (or the Crew's Choice, whidi gives 
you a suggested s^-up. 

Then it's up into the big btue youndet 
Vou're sat on the ninway -- open the rhrot^e -, 
pull pack on the pystick . . and you're ^ 

There's no time to admiie 
the scenery, though. Voure 
on a mission, and it's down 
to you to cajry it out suc- 
cessfully. Help IS at hand, 
though. The f-lB)s one of 
the world's most advanced 
fighter planes, i^fering 
Head Up and Multi 
Function displays (HUD and 
MFD), 05 well as an Up Flrooi Conuol 
Pane] fUFCP), Basically, this meana iha: all the 
information you need c$n be displayed oonve- 
niently. without n all beoommg too much of a 
muddle. 

It's unhkely that youH reach your target 



without incident, though Enemy fighter patrols 
are likely to intercept, and you've no choice but 
to blow em out of the sky. You're alerted to 
their presence via the radio, and wUl see them 
as a dot on your ladai. Switch the MFD to Air 
Comhat mode and select your air-to-air missiles. 
Swnng towards the target. When the missile 
'locks' lot It go and get the haU out before a mis- 
sile IS launched at. you 

Targeting ib fuUy automatic thanJts to the 
mtelligeni weapons system. Point the plane 
toughly in the direction that you want to fire in - 
if the target's visible and you have the oonoct 
missile tyiM selected, a 1ock-on diamond 
appears. Stab the Fire button and leave youj 
weapon to do the rest. Its seldom necessary tg 
get doser than a few miles from the target be it 
ground-based or airborne, 

Landmg is one of the trickiest things m any 
jlighc sun. We've all Ht the disappointment of 
completmg a mission, downing several enemy 
aiTcraf; ^n-route. only ts total the plane on the 
runway F-Jfi allows you to 
cheat. As long as you 
Ime yourself up on 
'.he correct 

iipproach so that 
you're inside the 
ILS heam, the com- 
puter can me made 
to 'take over' 

You're given a 
latmg on how well you 
Qew at the end of each mission. Mission 
Effeoiveness is jiudged on how many o( the mis- 
sion targets weie destroyed Your Kill Hetino is 
calculated on the niunber of missites fued ovsr 






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l« flying in to Intarcafit. Tlma fbr >oina avaaiva 
nMneauwraa. CSal Iheaa ■ttarbunva«a onl 



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law Miga. Switch to tha InBtruinanl Landing 
Aymtahrt fbr a wnOAth tOuohdCfWA. 




• A taitboah landing! Put on tha vrhaalbralia 
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\h9 numijer of eneniT takea out 

Your view a horn mside tlie cockpit The 

buLk of the lower half of ihe scieen is taJien up 



by the MFD irmrumeniaticn. aJong wilh banks 
o( wairtirig lights and indicators The ujp hall 

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HUD supenmposed on top, The soeneiy moves 
around qpickly, and though not tembly mter- 
e$t«d to look at. is slick enough to be believable. 

There's s lot to leam. Sunply strapping your- 
setl mto the ejector seat and taking off is likely 
to result m a quick death. The accompanying 
manual is compfehensive, though, and gets you 
iiised to the concepts and controls wtihout too 
much pain. It contains much uiionnation about 
attacking and de/ensive manoeuvres boo. A 
quick reference sheet is also included and gives 
you an at-a-glance overview o! the controls and 
instmmenl layout. 

Once you've got to grips vifith flying the 
ptoifl, F-36 CoiniHE Pilot is. 
flraai fun! its easy to 
beoome engiossed m the 
nikssioD. and when the 
alarm soimdf the arrival 
of an incorning missile, a 
tnie sense of panic over- 
takes you. 

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Imagine, ii you will, a future wheie man 
has conquered space Wlwie distance ami 
tune no longer have tneamng. Where the 
human race has Technology which aUcrws 
any object to travel to any pomi in spsoe - 
Innantly. Passing through the centre of a man- 
made blade hole, tho traveller oould hJid hin^ell 
at the other end of the gakxy in a matter of 
nucrcffieconds. The universe has become a very 
gmall and very busy place, 

Man has made contact with several intelli- 
gent {and not so intelligent) species. Galactic 
pontics are a vary compless and veiy dangerous 
field to WDilt in, Ei^ter then BAT, an ultia-seaet 
espionage orgaitifation, BAT is a subdivision of 
a VERY large corporation. A Dorporation 
Involved in some extremely mactuav^oUian pur- 
suits. Paialilels can be drawn between the world 
of BAT and George Orwell's 198i - you wili 
always be watched, and you will usually be 
expected. You are an agent for BAT, and youi 
ciisslon is one of vital importance. The universe 






IS depending on you. 

Two very dangerous criminals are on the 
loose. Having both escaped from the same 
prison, they maJte a very formidable team. They 
must be apprehended, or at 
very least stopped, before 
they can do any damage. 
Both have a history of 
violent crime, but one, 
known as Viangor, is a 
ps^chopatb. and unfor- 
tunately for the 
peace-loving people of 
the galaxy, a genius. Who 
knows what his next niove will be? 

You have be«n ordered to go to the planet 
Selenia. to a aty caUed TerrapoUs, the last 
known location of the infamous Vrang&r 
Tenapolis is a truly dreadful place, a nighuoaie 
world lanh with corruption and thick widi crime 
The streets are a breeding ground for some c( 
the most dangerous killers in the universe, and 



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strangers aie anythtng but welcome And so it is 
tbrough this melee of vice and evil that you 
must staiK youi quarry, and these people ste (he 
only ones who can help you. 

Some of the ^ange creature? you will 
eiwaaunter are rnore helpfnl than others. Some of 
them are just piam dangerous, bm all of them 
must be approached, baigained with, cajoled ,. 
or just plain killed. In a city where even the 
police ore your enemy, ncK>ne can be trusted, 
and soiDC should not be beheved. And so 
you pull the coUar of yoiur raincoat 
high, and with only a laser and a 
aedit card in your pocket , you hit 
the streets of Terrapolis. 

SAT is a game of enormous 
size and scope, and you wiU 
realise this as soon as you see 
the manual - a well presented 
and highly Informative tome of 
almost gaigantuan pioportioas:, jt 
does contain everything yOu need to get 
started in the game. The manuai also has a 
lengthy and highly instructive plot scenario - 
almost a novella. Although most of us woiild 
rather forgo the manual, useful clues can be 
gained about the city and the population, and it 
really should be studied m depth before you 
make yow Itrst foray onto the 
planet. 

The game itself 
Ifi an icon-driven 
adventure. Before you 
yawn and turn the 
page, it should be 
oxpEalned that BAT is 
om of the most beauti- 
fully presentdd and 
innovative game& ever to 
appear on the CPC, As an adventuie (he game 
cannot be faulted. There is no parser as such - 
all your actions are unplemenied via a ftodting 
cursor, But the cursor itself has a few tricks up 
Its sleeve. Placing it over certain graphics 
changes its lunctlon. meaning you can e^lore 



put, 



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# You taika a quial itroll Ihrou^ti tha ftarfc, 
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than l« alill no algn at Vran^Or, 







•- tn* svaevpoit bt lit* tMchanitind !• yoiw viartins P^inl* >nd from lt*f* i/vj c«fi »««••« quit* ■ 
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<h& locations or chai with the' locals with the 
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The oontTOl method if a df«aiti in cpeiation. 
It ensiues rapid progress, and can be pkiked up 
in a matter of minutes. Before 70U acumll^ st£it 
the game pmp^i, you CM change the way youi 
chaiacter behaves by selecting a range of 
attributes such &s charisma, intelligence, agility, 
etc. This also affects the way other chaiacters 
lieat you. Choosing low intelligence in favour of 
more physical chaiajcteristics may help you win 
in a Sight, bm nol in a baigaining situation 

The deptb and wealUi of optjoiis availabtc is 
bieathtaldng, but never serves to malie the 
game more complex than it needs to be. The 
Challenge sei before you is an inunense one and 
1^ chocli fuJ of suipriaeg. Thft people of 
Tenapolis can at times be both helpful and dan- 
gerous, but ail of then; can be dealt with m 
i^anoLs ways. 

The graphics are unbehewable. truly e^ncel- 
leni. aM all suit the game 10 a tee This level of 
presentatjon is present in all a^p&ci^ or 
the game, and the whole thing 
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Space travel In the futiiie is a pretty 
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Young Flitnbo gets his quest Dolptmei bv 
Andolph Pnoe and his amnsiflg dancing disk (try 
saying thai after a gallon of lager) If it^ mfmite 
lives you're after for the disk version then look 
no further. 



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Flimbo's Ovesf disk: 

Address 770F Poke 00 



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CHEAT MO 





Puzzitic 

Next to slither off the 
Piice Keyboard is a better 
way to beat the fm^a- 
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dish. Merge this with 
the demon Datphb lo 
get lots oi retneE and tiixie, 



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Monty 
Python's 
Flying Circus 

Victory I10.2 ui the Dolphin saga se«s the pecu- 
Uar tale of 3 game based on a 20 year old TV 
series that w&s almost fuimy.., 20 year^ a^ It's 
Mont J? Python's Hying drcussssss. 

Infinne liws and tess enemies wete iwhat a 
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Monty Python 'i 
Flying Circuv: 

Address Poke Effect 
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Operation 
Thunderbolt 

Is theie no limit to this cliap's lendeavotir? Last, 
tbs jQaatertiIa.$t Opetition ThunderboH disk is 
laid Jow by Andy 'whatever his name is' and his 
delightful Boiphin. Infmice credits on this one, 

Once again merge with Dolphin, 




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If it'f worrying you that the pokat m 
Ch^at Mode fust look like a jumble ol 
•Jgnt, squiggle$ and numbers to you, 
faior net, that's just whot they orel 
Programi, written by ipecialitti ta 
take the control of toodirig furvction, 
alter, ond then start (he gome. What 
y«ky will need to do^^ should you wont 
miHl one, iSi 

1 ) Mak@ sure the routine is written 
for your format - disk or top« - they 

'"^ totgeiwroll/ work with both. 

2) Type it in to the computer, 
molcing sur» therv are no error*. 

* Typing in routines is always prone 
to errors, so there are o coupJe of 
flwigs which ore designed to help, 

Hm first ore the funny numbers 
Kirfthln the "{ )" brocfcets on the left. 
They are tJOT to be typed in but are 
a code produced by tbo TYPEWRITER 
program printed in the Type-fns see- 
tion this »sue. It checks each line as it 
is typed in and produces a code 
which can be compored witb that 
phnted. 

SMondly, all SPACES in the lines 
hove been replaced by dots (which 
cannot be accessed from; the key- 
board, by the way}, the idea being 
ttMtf it mafeu them eotier to see- Got 
o DOT? Replace with o SPACE 1 

Quite often the routine itself vrill 
hove a built in check on the DATA 
numbers and will advise you if one 
of thenn is typed in wrongly. Uset^ 
friendly Of whot? 

'3] Sdve the program to tape or disk 
(not the game tape or disk) so thot it 
can be used again > 

4} Put in the game tape or disk and 
type lTAP£or I DISC. 

5} Type RUN to run the rovtine (not 
tUN "" (CTRL+ ENTER) oS you 
normally would) 

You should lind thot 
the gome will load 
normally, or you will 
be given instructions 
on what needs to 
be done. 



May 1991 AMSTRAa ACTiGH 



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OmEAT MODE 



Teenage Mutcmt 

Hero Turtles 

John Gimn's in, witJi a too hot to ti^dle toucli, 
that was too hot to handle i) cheat for the Tiatl^s 
game. Tum turtle wlule lie gives you invuinera' 
biUly and protection falling from buildings in 
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Myltifoce Magnilociueiice 

My lords, ladies and gentelmen, tfie main bout of the evening, a 
fly-light Mgltffoce contest of 15 gamesy 5 pokes eoch game. 

Featuring, in ttie blue corner >Areighing 754 pokes and 17 
keypresses, Bornets Champion Crusher - Oentfemon Carl 
Surry... hooray! 

And in the yellow comer, weighing 783 pokes^ 14 key 
presses, and a ticket to Surprise Surprise (groan), ttie Broomhall 
Bnjisor, Mister Multifnce - Paui Stuart Williams.,, yeyhh! 
Seconds out. Round 1 {ding}... 



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Magic 
Land Dizzy 

The total, Complete and Uuer salutian to 
Dtzzy's fourth and latest adventure, 
Mzgic Land Diz^y comes in stun- ^| 
nuig tona {and an exhausted Ihx. ^ 

naachinej from Dean 'Dizzy tan' u 
Hides of GRIMSBV*. Anyone who 
puts this nnijch effort in really ~^ 
deaervea a prize. Thanks to 
everyone else whn sent in soiu' 
tlons, it's a shame we can't use them 
aill 

Go left and ooUect the BACKDOOR KEY 

Go ]eft and talk to DYLAN THE BUSH 

Go left and Jump over the WELL 

Walk onto the SHARK, l(eep gomg on the FIN till 

VQu get to the other side 

CoUect the empty MILK BOTTLE 

Drop the BACKDOOR KEY and the eraptr 

MILK BOTTLE 

Go [eft and collect the HANDLE 

Enit top light via the staiis and walii left 

Keep going ieft and jump ovei the GOLD CROSS, 

ejfit ieft 

Walk to the .stairs, fump left twice and then 

jump right 

Walk Tight all the way, jump left and ooUect the 

POWER PILL 

Maite youi way baclc to the GOLD CROSS, hut 

don't pjekjtup 

Exit right, welK .right, juinp over the hottom 

nghc e»t 

Wall! to the PILLOW on the bed and 

jump nght. 

Wait for the HAT to start flymgi to the right 

Jump right.and walli nght Ming thiough the 

doud 

Walk to thfl nghc of the WELL rtjof, jump tight 

and then left 

Collect the CLOTH DUSTER (be quick - you fall 

through the clouds) 

You wrtU land on the WELL roof, walk right to 

get dl It 

JuTDp left over the WELL entrance 

Drop the HANDLE where you land and coUect 

the empty BUCKET 

Drop the CLOTH DUSTER 

Go nght and keep going till yoiu get to 

WEtRDHENGE 

Go to the nght haj:id colunm, malie sure you 

have the PO WEB PILL 

Place DIZZY on the left hand side smd jump 

right, you should have klled a GHOST 

You should also have Eanded on a BOULDER so 

waik right, then left, at the nght hand side o( 

the BOULDER jump nght 

Jump rtght again and you wtll M the 

other GHOST 

CoUect DORA THE FKOG and jump nght 

You wiU knd on an island, have a chat 

with GLENDA 

Walk as far right as poissihle and drop 

the POWER HLL 

Jump right, right and right again 

[avoid the BIRDS} 

Put DIZZY on the second step and drop 

the BUCIET 




You automatirally pick up the BUCKET of fiOT 
GEYSEE WATER 

Exit ieft and pick up the DRINK ME POTION 
Cro right and right again 
Drop the BUCKET and the DRINK ME POTION 
Go right and nght again 
Go up the stairs then right into the wvmi 
With a view 
Jump right at the piDow 

Jump nght three twne? and walit to the 

right of the well roof 

Watch out for COCONUTS the cheeky 

MONKEYS throw 
Jump nght twits and collect the 
BIG STICK 
Walk to the DIAMOND on tlus saeeo 
and jump left 

Walk to the e4ge of the pla^omi and 
jump right 

Go up the platform to the edge and jump rtght 
CoUect the BLACK CAT. walk to the fax right 
and jump right 

You should have landed on WEIItDHENGE, col- 
lect the DIAMOND 
Collect the DAGGER 
Walk to the far left and jump left 
Mind the torch on the screen to the left of 

WEIRDHENGE 

Go left until you sae DYLAN agam 

Drop the DAGGER. coUect the LEAF, drop the 

DAGGER again 

Collect the LEAF and exit nght 

Co nght until you see GLENDA on the island 

Drop the BLACK CAT on GLENDA and she wiU 

help you with DYLAN 

Drop the LEAF and she will put it in the 

CAULDRON 

Go left and keep going to where you dropped 

the: DAGGER 

Pick up the DAGGER then eat ieft, collea the 

CLOTH DUSTER 

Exit ieft, go on the SHARK FIN tiU you gel lo 

the other side 

Go left until you get to eleepuig DOZY and drop 

the CLOTH DUSTER 

Exit left and drop the DAGGER on the GOAT 

Drop tJne BIG STICK to hil the GOAT (I) 

Drop the BIG STICK again 

Go aJi the way laack to the movtmj bndga 

CoDeet the BUCKET and DRINK ME POTION 

Go n^hl and nght again, then up the stairs 

Make your wey lo the GOLD CROSS Md 

pick tt up 

Go left and position DfSCV on the first or 

second step which lead to the top nght exit 

Jump and walk left to the edge of the 

WINDOW LEDGE 

Take a big jump to the left 

Keep walhng until you meet DENZIL the 

ICE BLOCK 

Find out what happened then drop the BUCKET 

Ewt Iflfi, keep going until you meet VAMPIRA 

If you have the OOU) OROSS, no pioblems 

Exit bottom nght and walk left off the stairs 

Walk nght into the BURNING TORCH and 

collect it 

Once collected, the secret door will 

have opened 

Walk left then right to the opening 

Jump into the exit and fmd poor DAISY 

Chat with her and then drop the DRINK U£ 

POTION - It will reduce her to normal size 

Make sure you still have the GOLD CRO^ 

Go to where you oiied DENZIL and collect his 



CHEAT MO 



PERSONAL STEREO 
Drop the GOLD CROffi 

Co nght and keep going to the scieen before the 
SHARK 

G€ up the stairs and into the (oom with the BED 
Co CO Cbe PILLOW jump nght. then left to the 
'topoftbeBED 

Wall! to the far left and then jump left 
Walk left until it is pctssible to go up the stairs 
Go up the staus and ejot tgp iigm 
CoUeoi the LfOHTNtNG ROD and exit 
bottom righl 

Keep walking left to the WINDOW LEDGE 
Jump in the TREES as you did before 
Walk 1^ and jump left when you enter thia 
screen below 

Walk left to the first platform up and jump ngbt 
Walk to the edge of this platform and 
jtimp right 

You should be next to the BARD 
He wiU ignore you 

Drop the PERSONAL STEREO and coUea the 
MAGIC PIPES 
Go right to the WELL 
Drop the TORCH 

Go dovm the WELL and plats DIZZY on the DIA- 
MOND 

CoUect the DIAMOND and drop the 
MAGIC PIPES 

The PIPES will make the HAT fall asleep 
Wait for the RAT to fall down the WELL then 
jump left 

Go through the FORGOTTEN CAVE, jump left 
over tbe water 

Exit left collect the ANCIENT LAMP but mind 
the dripping slime 
Keep jumping until you reach the 
CASTLE again 

Make your vtray to sleeping DOZ¥ 
Drop the ANCIENT LAMP on him 
Collect the CLOTH DUSTER 
Make sure you have the LIGHTNING ROD 
Drop the CLOTH DUSTER twioe on the LAMP 
and DOZY IS cured 
CoUea the POISONED APPLE 
Drop the LIGHTNING ROD. exit nght and diop 
the CLOTH DUSTER 
Make your way back to the WELL 
Collect the BURNING TORCH 
Go to GLENDA on the island 
CoU^ the DIAMOND 

Give GLENDA the POISONED APPLE to put in 
the CAIELORON 

Give GLENDA the TORCH to light the fire 
She wiU cast a spetl and creai<e the 
WEEDKILLER POTION 
Jvst GRAND DIZZY leH 
Go to the WELL and fall down It 
When you enter tiie cave ooUect the 
RED STICKY SOMETHING 
Matte your way back to EXC ALIBUR 
Drop the SnCKY SOMETHING on it 
You will not be able to |(?t go ol EXCALIBUR 
Go back to the ICE PALACE entrance 
Exit left, go down the steps and lump left 
Jump nght w^alk nght and jump Left 
Jump to the hole m the waU and go to the 
far left of it 

Take a big jump to the left 
Collect the DLUtOND and walk left 
Waih right and enter the MIRROR m the waH 
The controls are now reversed 
Walk mto the QUEEN OF HEARTS and exit left 
Make your vjay across to GRAND DIZZY 



May 1991 AMBTnAD ACTt<IM 



63 



CHEAT MODB 



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When you faH on lira all the characters 

are cured 

Go to the VOLCANO base where you filled 

the BUCKET 

Go to the last step and lump nght ' 

Step on the large rDck and walk nght 

You wil] see clouds comsng from the hot LAJ/A 

When a. doud comes from the muddle do 

the loUowing: 

Jump hglit onto the cloud, wall: right for a split 

second then jiunp nght again. 

Eidt nght. exit hottom nght go down the Uumel 

Walch out for the fue whidr moves acroas 

the screen 

Walk to HADES, before yau g^ to Ma fir 

burner he Will talk and givo you the 

WIZARDKILLER TRIDENT 

CoUect the TRIDEST and take it back to ZAXS in, 

the ICE PALACE 

Make sure your ettetgf bai is full when you 

enter ZAKS fooin 

Drop the TRIDENT 

Coiled, 2AK'S RDJG and make youi way bads to 

HADES collecting aU the DIAMONDS left, 

Th&is are 30 DIAMONDS maB-i7 in view and 

[iir^ hidden: one behind the laihng (screen 

where DYLAN was). on& betmd the imlmg 

(scieeii wiiere EXCAUBUR was}, and one 

^Jnnd tile raihng (sct&en to the left of HADES) 

Go to where you colleaed the WEARD KILLER 

POTION and ejjst left 

WalK left to the edge of the rock and jump left 

Drop ZAK'S RING and make your way back 

to HADES 

He Will cast a apeU for you if you hav» all 

30 DL^MONDS to take you home. 

Phewl 



Hammerfist 

Oily Staley of Horley and Cail Surry of Bamet 
have discovered a Iseyptess cheat and dextenty 

excetdse for Harmaedist. 

Pause The game with "ESC" th^i press 
dCfwn the keys "Y" , "W, T, "O" with one hand 
and "C", "V", "B" and "N" with the other. 
Then, when you unpause the game with "ESC", 
you will be able to skip through the levels by 
pressing "L" Got it? 



THE MULTIFACE 
WAY 

The (t)s and {d)s before the address indicate 
whether the poke was i,vntten for a tape or disk 
game [they might work on both, it's worth a try). 
Just in esse ^ou donl already how to put in 
these BLACK BOX POKES, here are the steps to 

SuCC^S- 

a) Load the gfame as normal, 

b) Press the RED button on tha MULTIFACE- 

c) Press "T" for tool. 

6.) Press -* " to make sure you select the code. 

e) Press "H" fo( HEXADECIMAL input. 

{] Press "SPACE" for input. 

g} Type in the ADDRESS {4 characters ie. 3A7C}. 

h) Type in the POKE (2 dnaracters ie. A7). 

i) Press "RETURN". 

ji If mors than One pok& (the I cells you) goto IQ, 



k) Press "ESC* back to the menu. 
1} Press "R" rettimtothe game. 



Trail tor 

From stormirooper John Brovm of Witt^drtg 
come the passwords for colouiful lunnmg and 
blasting game Trantor. Vou can see them with 
your Multtlace window by pointing it to addres$ 
EEM - they are KEMPSTO^S. JOYSTICK, SPEC- 
TRUM, SOFTWARE. KEYBOARD. COMPUTER. 
CASSETTE, SINCLAIR. GRAPHICS. HARD- 
WARE. TERMINAL. Wliat's all liiis Sinclaji 
Spectrum nonsense*? 



Yogi's Great 
Escape 

The ejtcellant Carl Surry of Bamet 
greatly deserves his pnae this _^b,^ 
month. He ha;s found lots of mul 
tifacg pokes (later) and this 
keypress cheat for Yogi's Great 
Escape - Redefine the keys to I 
C E and you get infinite lives. 






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Back to the 
future II 

Tony Davies of Brighton has sent in a keypress 
fof Back 10 the Fume B. Type HEADBUTT 
slowly on the title screen and vou wiU activate 
the inhnite energy cheat, also by presstnig 
'ESC" you will h6 able 10 move to the rtext 
level. In levels two and four, at the question 
TRY AGAIN Y OR N. pressing V wi]3 give you 
finother ch*nce and extra lives each time 




AA Chrimbo 
Covertape 

^zznlc Oeme 

John Brown of Witu^iiiitj hm been mvohred 
in all things CPC foi a kmg tune, as those or 
you who read the now deceased Botiio 
Tiews will bo well aware. Its nice to hear 
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65 




Once again the furry 
fiend awakens from 
the Land of Mists to 
hring you yet anotiier 
issue full of adventure 
information,.. 

Jaws - the lost 
Studhorse (Stallion?!) • 
PDf Disk only 

mg up both sides), lias beautLfuJ digitized 
graphics in every location, digltzed sound and 

good puzzles... Sounds too good to be true, 
doesn't 11' WeU. Jaws has all the alxjve. but - 
and it is a big BUT - the game is wnuen in 

French 1 

Now although the Baliog is fluent in all 
three of the orash dialects. pltES a smattenng of 
hohgobtm, he isn't exactly flueni in f tench' So n 
was with a bit of dfflculty and a french-engiish 
dictionary that I tried playuig this game! 



Wfitten by Stephane Saint -Martiti and Xavier 
Brysbaert. the general stotyline (as fat as 1 can 
tell !) goes as follows: 

In 195S a deadly vints has spiead through- 
jut the world and miilions of people sie dead 
and dying. You play a heaueirut woman called 
Shana (you see her digitized body and heat hsi 
voice at the start of the G128 version} and for 
some leason that I couldn't quite Talhom you 
niuGt try and find \he last surviving sialliiot] 
(called Jaws - perhaps he's got very big teetji!) 
located deep in tlie mountains of Tib€t. Perhaps 
the StaJJion wttl Ik aJble to sav« the World? {I'm. 
not too sure on this pomt!} 

The game iwohs beautiful - as I've already 
mentioned, thete are digitized graphics at every 
location and ^ome, ^ch as the large watetfail 
have added sound el^ects. As to the gameplay. . 
Ummm,. Well, apsrt from maiMigjng tg move 
noTd, sucJ, ouesx and ^x and examine things, 
Th€ Bilg oouidn'i teaUy discover much as 10 the 
game's quality - his French wasn't good 
enough! However, I did discover that saying 
'salut" to certain people resulted in them actu- 
ally talking I^c^ to you through the computer's 
loudspeaJner - the old man said something m 
french to me when I said 'Salut' and the yak 
tnooed at me! 

Anotbei very useful (eatuie m that you can 
redefine the nujneiic keypad to have your own 
oomiminds progranuned in -- this makes enter- 
ing ocmunands quiicitft and easier and is 
definitely a good ide^. The cursof ^e^FS aie also 
defined to move the compass diiedions. 

I haven't given the game any ratings a& I am 
not sure of its quality! li looks good - but fot all 
I knovf Its par^r and putties could be poor.. 
Definitely only for people who can speak French 
or have a good dictionaty< 

• The game is Freeware' (I presume Has 
means Pubhc Domam) and to get a copy send 
£1 and a blank disk to Megamag, Stephane 
Cune, 13 Rue de Cotmaji, 59291}, Wasquebal. 
FRANCE. 




4 This, is yuu |y*G, it i-s hard Id befieve, isn't 
lt?| VaiH nam* it Shajta aRd ydu'rd UiH hftrallitii 
In Jaw*. 



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NEWS... NEWS... NEWS... 

Adventure ceveriap soon! 

After a qujch word with Bod, he has agreed 
to put an adventure on one of the montMy 
covertapes. The galrog iS already negotiat- 
ing with one company and hopeluUy w^'ll 
have an adventure game on the front covet 
soon. Watch this space . 

Meanwiiile. i( you have any suggestions 
foi adventures thai you wouM liJce to see 
given away with AA then write 10 The 
Balrog at the u^ual address (and send some 
dues while you're at it!) 

Adventure Convention 

Tilt second Ad'.fepime PiObe convention 
will talte place on Satiifdlay 2fitb October, at 
the Royal Angus Thistle Hold in 
Buminghani. Although the convention 
caters for all types of computer, iJ last year 
was anything to go by, there should be 
cjuiie a few Amstrad adventurers there as 
well. So, if you're interested in going, and 
meetmg the Balrog m hjs leathery flesh, 
then write to: Adventure Probe Convention 
Information, 67 Uoyd Street, Llandudno, 
Gwfynedd LI^O ZifP. 

Golden Chalice awards 

Each year the Adventuters CiuJb, run by 
Henry Mu^ler, hokis awards for the best 
adventures released that year These 
awards are voted upon by the suhficnbeis o* 
ACL. Although the best overall game went 
to Ch^-os Strikes Back {Not available on the 
AiBstrad}, Topojogika scooped best mail- 
order software ccHnpaiRy as well as best 
mailorder adventure with Last DAys of 
Doom (AA62i, ElecCronDC Arts received the 
award of Best National Software Company 
and Sim City won best simufauon. 

Wowl 

Two more games have been neieased this 
month by WoW soJiware 
• Esca}Te from Fnson Planet is a two-part 
FAW&d gama (dis|< only} which will run on 
Ihe CFC, Plus and PCW machines. Joan tells 
me that the scBinano is that you've been put 
on prison planet and you must escapii - I 
oould have guessed thatl Price is £5. 
e Pfjwer Cuise is a two-part GACed 
adveniure vwinon by Adrian Conn aveilable 
on cassette (£3) and disk (£5). Silting m 
front of your computer one day, you have a 
strange feeling and you pass out Nest thing 
you know,, you'vs been transported to an 
altemitiue universe... I 

For more details wina to WoW at; 7B 
RadipoleLaine, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 9RS 



6i 



AMSTRAO ACTtON May 1991 




Knapped • £2.90 cas- 
sette, £4 dfsklAtias 
Acl¥*nture Software, 67 
Lloyd Street, Llandudno, 
Gwrynedd LL30 2YP, 

Yqu. aitd a. frienfl were tjountig Onnsiork when 
ytni diKoveied an unmapped cave system. 
Being cunoiis adventuiers, you started to 
exploie the caves tnit. as you had not bought a 
lamp with you, you were attacked in the daik by 
a Qrue. Thfl Grue devoured your tubby friend 
then and iheii. but feeljng tather full, he 
deaded to lod; you in his cave for Viihen his 
fippeilte returned. He has now fallen asleep out- 
side the only ewt You roust find a way to 
escape! 

This is the intToductoTv screen to Orue- 
ECnapped, a bnUiantly written ADLAN game by 
Bob ArosteT' Adams - some of you may remem- 
ber Bob when he very Igndjy reviewed ADLAN 
m M60 after the Balgs nwiutor blew upf 

Since It £ i&a onJy, th« Balg was initially 
womed that the game would have a few too 
many In-jokes', as both Bob and The Cnie' are 
legUlar readers and contributors to Adventuie 
PtObA Howevei, my fears were unfounded - the 
game ;s just very funny ! 

The p^^^^!e5 ate weij thou^bt out and logj- 
CTl -. too logical at times: one of the pujEles 
uivolves reaching a sbeSJ by mmpiiig onto som-fr 
thing springy The final srolutEOn is very logical 
but so absurd I kicked myself, Bob's style seems 
to be similar to Colin Mains' s games, in that his 
objects are never what they seem I was exam- 
ining the sinls and I found a plug - a IS amp 
one I There is also a pauiiing of Ormsluils quay - 
a door key' The ]o]tes in the game ate very 
funny - the (maS pujtle is such a play on words 



itll make you groan I 

Gnt-Ksappedi h&i advance oommands 

such as Ramsave, Ramload and ]qoji behind and 

' took under but. surprisingly, the game does not 

undeistand it or all'. Oveiall. one of the best 

games Ive played m quae a wMel 



ATMOSPHERE 


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81% 



Talisman of Power • £3 
casseHe, £4 disk • WoW 
Software, 78 Radipole 
Lane, Weymouth, Dorset 
D14 9RS. 

Firstiy, rd hke to congratulate the author C Bury 
on following my reoommendations in AA60 on 
sending software mtd magazines lOr review. It's 
so much easier tf people bother to get their 
games play- tested, as welt as sendmg all the 
mstmctions plus a hint sheet Unfortunately, ['m 
now gomg to have to admit that I wasn't too 
impressed with Talisman^ Your quest (should 
you decide to accept itli, s to travel to the tem- 
ple of Ezekiel aind destioy the evU lord Oisova. 
Included m the tnstiucaons you gel a list of 
verljs the game accepts (always useful for (^ay* 
mg adventures) but not much else^ 

The game was wntten using GAC and is 
reasonably laige {£4 locations! with average 
graphics Most of the puzzles are well thought 
out. although a couple seemed a bit ditficuit as 
there is no clue at all about what you rauat do. 
For example, you tliscoirer iwo dwarT-hke crea- 



ADVENT 



tuiee ettting by a pond, talking Fine, you think, 
so you Ery to talk to them hut they just turn 
around and tell you to shut up' What you must 
do IS give them a fishmg line - but there is no 
clue or reason foi doing this' Another puzzle 
involves a statue: on examimng the statue you 
are told It i5 of Otsova but you are given no 
other clues. What you miist do is smash the 
statue up with a hammer to discover a pidt-axe 
hidden Inside. As you don't get many pick-axe$ 
hidden m statues, this puzzle is a hat iUogica]' 
What would have been better would have been 
If you were told that the statue had a pick axe 
in its hand or if the help oommand had tdd you 
to try breaking the statue open. . , 

The parser is unfriendly at times as weU. 
Tv¥ice m the game you are required to dig, b»X 
the command 'dig' gives the response: 'You 
can't'* What you must do is type "dig in earth' - 
not very impressive! The BaJg also had big 
problems tiymg to cross a lake m a boat to get 
to an island. After spending five mmutes trying 
to discover how to get into the boat, I lealised 
that you oould lust 'row boat' without gettuig tn 
It However, the only way you oould get to the 
island was 'row boat to island' - yuk' 

To be faar. there * nothing really wrong with 
the game, jt [ust aeems to lacJt a cettarn quality 
that would nfiake it good The best word to sura 
u|? 7slt$mst) IS average 

This 1$ C Buty's first game though and hope^ 
(uUy he will improve ui tune. 



ATMOS^HEM 

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[f you have a probtem. if no-one else 
can lielp. ma\1>e you c:dii tiM,- ttic 
Uifik & Liidie^ of Ad^eniurv. The;<e 
worthy $>ouk have conipEcted ;ilJ the 
g3rt)L*s thc}' U&U and iiin advi.se \i>\i if 
you are «»ruck. If yon teU'iihont. make 
sure yrtu only caU ui -ik iiihk- Ijour*! 

Advenlure Ouest • Angeiique » Apache Gold • 
Arnold Blackwood Trilogy • Beer HunEer • Bestiary 

• Big Sleaie ♦ Blacit Foumam * Black KmgW • 
Boggul » Boredom » Bored of ihe Rtngs • Brawn 
Free • Can I Cfteat Death (I A li) • Case of the 
Mixed-Up Shymer • Cave Capers • City (or 
Ransom • ClaK»c Adventifre • Cofossa! Advenlure 

• Colour of Magic * Crash Landing ■ Cncket C^azy 

• Dodgy Geezers • Doom>o'ds • Dracuta • 
Dungeon Adventure • OAA • Efner^ld l&^e ■ 
Escape Alkeri spaceship > Escape Irann Koshima * 
Espionage Island • Fantasia Diamond • Ftreslone » 
Fooitjall ftenii * Frankenstein ■ GalaxiSs ■ Genfis 

Of Siradus • Ghosthoose ■ Grange Hini • Heavy on 
the Magick • Hobbit ■ Hunciiback > imaginatioo * 
tngnd's Back • Ichof • islanO of Chaos • JBSOn of 
the Argonawls * Jogmey lo Deaih • KentiBa • 
KiiigMmajre • Knighl 0<c * Knight Tyma • Kobyashi 



Naru • labynnin • Larveioi ■ Life Temn • tof ds of 
MagtC ■ Lord of (he Rings • Lords Of Time ■ LOSi 
Shadow * Magncwis Appfentuce < Microman ■ 
Mindfighiier* Mindshadow * Mordon's Quest • 
Mountains ol Kel * Mural * Mysiery of IrKJus Valley 
• Necns Dome • Never Ending awy • Not a Penny 
More Not a Penny itm * Panic Berteatti the Sea • 
Pnce ol Mag« * Projacl Annihilabon • Project 
Volcano • Quest • Ques^prebe 3 • Quest lor the 
Golden E^g-cup • R«h«l Planet ■ fHMlhawk ■ Red 
Moon • Relom lo Eden • Revenge of Chaos » 
Rijel's Revenge • Robm of Sherwoad • Roog • 
Scary Tales * Seabase Delia • Seas of Blood * 
Shard of inovar * Shadowy oi Mofdor * Sharpe's 
C^eed& • Simpfy Magic • Smashed » Souls of 
Dai^(On • Spaced out • Star Wfeck ■ Stonm 
Mounlairi • Subsunk • Talisman ot Power ■ 
TetTomwiinos • Tupan ■ Top Secret • Venom • 
WeAaday • Werewolf Simy later • Winter 
Wooderland • Wizba • Wolfman » Worm in 
Para^ae & all Intecceptn' games' 

Marti Eltrtngham, 39 Qdrgle Hill. Thorpe St 
Andrevv, Norv^ich. Norfolk riRT OXX. 

Altersho^ • Cciossat Adventure • Escape Ircm 
Kho$ima * Gnome Rangor • Gremlins • Gmtd of 
Thieves • Haunted House • Hildihiker's Guide • 



lognd's Back ■ Kingdom of Hamri • Learner 
Goddesses • Mir>cisnac)ow ■ Mordon's Quest ■ 
Pawn ■• Price of Magic ■ Retum to Eden • 
fiigel's Revenge « Scapeghosi • Seabase 
Delta * Snowbsll * SorcerM • & 
Vitiage o' Losi Souls. 

Rot}[n Hartey, 3 Shropshire Place, Eastgale, 
Pete^1»^oug^l, CambaPEl SBK, 

Andy Capp & Pnoe of Magic, 

The Kenderian. 47S Westhorm Ave. Eltham, 

London SE9 SLR. 

Jewess c' Bafrylofl, 

Cliri$ "The Barbarian" Gore, 22 St Anlhony'a 

Pk-, Mallow, Co. Cork, Ireland. 

Cnspin Cnjfldny • Crystal Thefi • Gnome Ranijer ■ 
Massage iron^ Andromeda i ScapeQtio$t 
Jay Monoautomo, 23 Tlnt»g«f Clow, Hemel 
Hempitead. Herta HP2 6NL. Tel between Mon- 
Frl, 4.30-9pm (13443) nnS7 

Deadende'S * Gnome Ranger ♦ Hitchhiker's Guide 
' Lancelot * Quest fo' ifte Golden Eggcup • Rigel's 
Revenge • Smashea & Venom 
Richard Jamiesor^, 7t Land Street. Rothes, 
Abeftour, SenFfihirQ AB3&7BB, 



I 



May 1991 JkMSTRAO ACTtaH 



67 



The Balg is desperate for ne^w^ 
clues, so if you have any hints 
or tips for any adventures, send 
them toi 77j€? Baira^ Citteptit^ 
Amsirad Acti€>tiy Future Rublishin^ 
Ltdf Beauf€>rd Court, 30 Monmouth 
Street, Bath, AVON BAl 2AP, 



Thanks to Nigel Arnott, Madwolf, 
Antcrusher^ Adrian Forbes*, Hazis 
Doigizas, Simon "Aragorn" 
Netherw^ood, Howard S^vaines and 
Ian Ho^^lett. 

Special thanks to Ken Bond for the 
map of InfldeL 



Til* BJg Sl»as« - Fttft 3 

Wlusper in the library. 

Thi^ Malted BuUHnidi ptays a big pan in 

paix2l 

Slioot wbale with gun (find rum yauiselfl) 

Comfptlan 

If yoti want to Shave Off tliat ridiculously 

overgiown beard; 

Go to the pharmacy, 

Buy everything from aheives with 

credit card. 

Go to the Bathroom. 

Put thei plug in the plughole. 

Turn the tap twice. 

Let ihe ginit fill with water and PUT SOAP IN 

SINK. 

Then get it and PUT IT ON BEARD. 

CUT BEAM with RAZOH! 

Iiiand 

Swap your flhiit with the old man for the 

matches. 

To gat the cyUnd&r needed to npan the pyra- 
mid, dive into the lagoon. There is a spade 
und&r the bushes, 

Use the words in the booh on the miimmy. 
thadowi of Menl«r 

Hold up the phiaJ lor light. 

Make Smeagol piomise hefiore you 

untie him, 

««lld Of Thl*v«* 

To help the iute work properly, examins the 
paintings in the gallery. 
To get the minah bird, go to the Zoo Office 
and get the grotty hey, now open the white 
door and unlock the small door Open the 
small door and go through ii. dosing it 
t»hind you. Put bird m cage {from the gate- 
house). U you don't dose the door ihfrn the 
bard vrill Qy away. 

Sit on the bed in the loam bedroom and 
press top button with cue. 
The oil pamting is the only pamting worth 
anything. 

The dress is in the wardrobe of the Hiain 
bedcoom. 



• The chma pot is under one of the beds 

• To SDeak something past the gaiekeepei. 
put it in the swag bag, 

• In the study, take note of what suit is 



missmg from the box. 

At the end. be careful to juoip into the boat - 
jUtgt going east will make you fall into the 
water which reduces youi score. 



INFIDEL 




CONTACTING THE BALG 

TIm* Kalrog is desperotie for riew corttrl- 

buHons to the Clu^pot and iust for 
Laughs secttons. To get in contact with 

him, write to: The Eairog, Amstrad 

Actioitt Future Pubiishin^ Ltd, Beauford 

Court, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon 

BAt 2BWon6 ihe posi will b« 

forwarded to his dungeon. 




6t 



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program thai other readers of A A 
would tirtd invaluable? We're 
always on Ihe lookout lor good 
quality listings o1 all hinds, 
whether they tw utiHty. game or 
^rious programs. 

All submissions mus! be ort 3 
liKih disti or casseiie. A 
description of th« program and 
how 1o operato it should be 
incigded, as well as any oiher 
information that you Ihtnk will 
make our lives easier. 

Smalief listings stand a greater 
chance of publication. After alf, 
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Gel it right! 

Typrg in programs can be a pretty trusttati^fig 
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wedotwoitiings. 

1 . W{ replace all the spdoes i n ihe programs wilfi 
dots, lo fnah« th&m easier to $m (tni COUnl^) 
i. At the start of each line is a speci^al code 
(inside those squiggiy brscStetsj. On th* 
covedapie tins monih is a specisl p^oairsm 

called Typ^rigtiter wtiich will show you Ihese 
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an thesv psges, If you type ttie Ifne incorrectly, 
Ihe code Ort your screen wilJ be diflerent lo the 
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10 use Type-riflhter are on the covertape pages 
3t the front oi Ihe mggaiine- We also print the 
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last month). 

i Yoo dcHi'l type these codes In - they're ther« 
ptiFsty IH checking purposes. It rou don t have 3 
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We otter a £20 cash prize* for each 
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Ajso from Giahain Plench comes a aeat colotu 
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iTLiite phasing from a Citizen Swift 9 pruitei, 
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tho screen. Numbeis app«ai Ln tho play aiea, 
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piling hetpfu]? Just send your name, address, 
phone number (say 11 ywi doa't want it 
printed} and subpects on whicli you're offemig 
help to: HelpUne, Amstrad Action, Beadoid 
Court. 30 Monmouth Stretit, Bath, Avon BAl 
SAP, Please write on a postcard or the back of 
a stuck dovni«Bmb[>e and Iseep it short or you 
wont giet in (w yoall get cut to loadsagames) , 

If you want help wntact tJie appropiiat* 
Helpliner - not us. By post indude a self- 
addressedf stamped envelope for tht rtpiif - or 
you won't get one. Aitd phone only in decent 
tiouts! 

Piracy is not welcome: ikml try it, you II 
get booted off, Ksep it legal. And if you rweiue 
SAI's, lor Itavrai^nke rttum them with 
some acitnowkdggfDQnt. Pinallv, if you want 
to come off HeJpJifleitist write in and say so. 



• Due tff #h« huge r»sp«n«e 
for the Helpline page, we're 
bflvifig to cwt tlown on the ciio 
of individual entriet. So fre«n 
now on, ploato quoto only 
your first itome and a phone 
no. Th«t way, you'll bo moro 
iikoiy to got in». 



Does anyuae want Id give dway any okl good 

ivDrkmg g^mies fai It&i, or for AA54. tvtuch con- 
CaiiLS ttii8 solution to Fantasy WoiSd Dizzy, or for 
AA64 EsiJeciallv want Emiyn Hughes' int. Soccer, 
Of Kiek on I. 
Tel 01 672 1330 

VVant«(l: ACUs IfOm Ott 'Bfl to Jan '89, also Apill 
'89, May 'S9, Aiiq ilS and Sopt 'W. Will also buy 
AAs. CWtiK and Ar;jiCi(S. 
TelXevon0e23e405a£ 

Wnnlcd: Tvmcmi. Bioodwy^ii. Castje Mastar. 
BarbaTtan 2. will swap for any of tho fallovving 
Rolxxop. DanDAii! 3. Run the Cuanilei 
UnUmchAbtes 61 Op&tiiii<iti Thanderboh Ail for 
use on 6128 Also wantod: Multitace 2 for About 
£25 tsh Anybody have cheats iat RamtXfW IsS&atts 

Tel Michael od 081 561 D748 

Wanted, f^maJc penpals aged 17-2S. I own a 464 
and tvill give h^ip to anypne who nseda it on The 
Bard's Taie. 
Tel Dave on 082:7 U964 

Does Bj]yone waul lo swap 3 Of these games, 
Bigfoot, Ace 2, T!i&«Ue Europe. Captain BJtwd and 
Mini Ofrice far Midnight RofiWianu, Now Zealand 
^iciry, Robocof}. ihc Dizzy CoUecuoa or J?Ai(dww 
Islands. Aiso wanted, iwnpals 10-12 with 4G4. 
m\ Mathow on 09948 2S^ 

WoAled: Progiam ideas in BASIC on how to p^t a 
house noor plan &nd then chftnge WgU oxclLBngo 
ideas. I have a 4fi4 CBBselte only 
Tel Uf > M, St«Idng «o D279 53461 !#venlnge|l 



Wher« can I get oiiginal EUte on disk for iho 6128'' 
Msa wanted! a DKtrocucs real time docic lor a &128 

as well as IhO CPC612B Basic spet (soft 967|, 4 
AA'l T to bouDw Lo photocopy articte alhout undoc- 
uiTif*ntfld Z80 i:ip cados. 
Tel Tony on 0*53. 512234 

Cisemiet 2 and fa/igec Jieiiegade desperately 

Tel Kam Urn Tano on 0^9 321097 

Waniad: Ahens. Altered Beast. Midnight 
P^iStAnce. New Zealand Siory, OpeiAUon Wolf, 
Rainbow Islands. Ricls Dangerous 1 and Weiidsr 
Boy. Will fwap forfi'alaiaii, 01b ami Liss, Pro Ski 
Sja}. Btede WnnioT or Spuidizzy, 
Tel David on 0737 768337 

Ph:>hp<U!J wanted ajfed 10-13 Must oivnCPC4e4 
Also hi>lp given on Etiw and laser Squad Help 
wanlfld on Bloodwych and Jantasy Worid Diizy 
and maps and pokes on any game. 
Phoufl Neil DD 0206 395237 

Wanted: Miittlface 2, will swap for MP2 modcLa- 

toi. Also AAs 1-ZS. wlU swap (oc games oi 

pssshuy 

TeL 041 B31 726S 



Can anyone bejp me on the last 

level of Bsdi Doogwous JI7 A tog 

fat gte«n man gets Into a fkuit- 

mg thing and shoots you with 

green balls. How do 1 get past 

tiim'' 

Tel James on 0709 S73741 

Please could somKin* help. I'm 
stuck on C&stl^ Masteil iat the 
812$ dish, Fm getting desper- 
ate 
T*1. 0703 792538 




Has anyone got Bard's Tsle or Tim^s 
oflm» 01) tapis to sw«p foi 4 adventures 
mduduig Smashed and Kabysshi Naw. Also 
wanted, CabHand Shadow Warriors by Ocean, or 
Escape from ths PJa/iet of tfte Robot Monsters bv 
Domaih on tape foi ! 1 games including N&mesis, 
Twin Turbo VSMid Diity- All on oas?otto. mvM l» 
originate, fully boxed with jtistmrtons 
Tel Gary on 022B 742&S'Wo«hends only 

Wanted: Liiife Cotnfuite^r People^ lot 6123 Disk 
Phaaae help - good pnce paid. 
TfllJQOOD 0136 622456 

Will anyone send me DtzzyJ and Dazy2 on aas ia 
exchange foi F- IS Strike EsgSe on disK7 
TalDfliel(on0292311333 

Wanted: Back to tha FUiufe and Star Troir on cas- 
sette, will oxchcinge toi gamos lUce Red Ham, 
Running JWan and more, or pay (air ptiw, 
Tel Gonlon on B4d¥i>qrtb 312691 alter 4pm 

Wanted: AAs t-29, swap for frames pi ^^^iblv 
buy. Also wanted: Muliiface 2. will swap for 8 
games - send for Liat to choose from (indudeB 
Bald's Tale. Lasoi Sduad. Vukm. FMifi Will 
Marcus Widdiooml>0 please ^vt ir> touch - i'vo tost 
your address 
Tel David on 041 8S172S8 

Help wanted from anyono who is familiar with 

OUaoll s PAW 

Tel Mr. O.C.Powell 0734 483007 Spm-fipm 



Hfipliiitit lof FHHton WMling 
Mp, tip* Of Pf*ipai», w oflpirtfl wiy ol 

lh« at»w. No morer kJ to charvge 

harvds, OK? This psfle i« for frw f»lp 

(Hrty. If you send in sfi entry askiag far 

mofwy for yo«F Sfrvice* yeu're wMling 

ifimt tJrtK and a stamp - it'll b« tlFalgdt 

inmebin.Onii» 

other hand, aerti in a eheqiM 

for G and yw couW go In 

SmsnAds... 



Help given ois The Bsrd's Tsis arid machine trade - 
tram the seweis to Mangafs Palaci? - fromRSXs to 
spriit's... ['mytwt man' 
Tel Adrian on 047S 3JG33 

Wili pay up to a quid each tor AAs 55 and S3, Al»o, 
1 would like a penpal f:om 10-13 to swap pohea 
mtti ch.iL^iits Must Itave CPC 4H and w«s«tte, 
Tel Colin DZ92 70929 

Het|> desperately needed on Tit Na KA0. 
Tel Mi. D.J.GflhaiL 0432 3411B5 

Hii Penpal wanted-l2+ also ahs anyone got AiPB 
s.'as»7 Will swap for X-Oui, Quanfii and Spy Hunter 
or many och{»rs- Ens anyone got the AA56 cheat 

mode book, will buy, or swap Jot games. 
Tel DominJcon Cramllngton 73I3377 

Heaea, has anyono got an. old copy of E-Motioa on 
dish thoy don't want? I will pay a rofrSonaUe price. 
Tel Timothy on 0669 SZ9451 (between 5 and 
Spm] 

"Hi therel " 29 ycai old male, loolang for female 
pfinijais, who can hdip with adventures and DlZZy. 
Photo please. 1 own a 464 with hlutuface 2 and 
■'DaKDnve" 
TelPatJDnOS33 376S44 

Wanted; GAC and Bards Ta/e and any home-made 
adventures^ (tape snlyl 
Tfll Colin on 0271 930817 

Urgently K|iLiied. cheats on disk (or Shadow 
Warriors and Sly Spy Secret Agent Anybody Will- 
ing ta set! Af reri^urjie/ and RoBdbiasior^ 
Reasonable prtoe paid 

Te], Mr. Williams on 0243 773940 



Free Piokon pnnter! Amsirad DMP 
2000 stopped prmtmg: one line of 
dots. If you would like it foi 
pwWrecroiiditionms;, aSiMjoid 
AAi. wme with Miver cajisettes, 
(rw if [■i(}llccl('H:J 
Tel Moira on 0962 361 123 



I anv attempting to set up a E>D 
library All advice, 
software etc. v^ry welcome. 
Tel Ben on 0732 35372E 

Helpf I can't get jsast level 2 of 
Svnttiibiade (cartridge). 
Tel Ben on 073 7^0602 



Wanted: ftetuni Of The Jedt on dusk, will 

swap for Out Run. O! Hero. Toumament of 
Denth & Hoati Blaster on tapu. Also wanted, tlw 
p^KfiWoid (or Bubble Bobble 
Tel D. Grendan on 021 744 5368 

Wanted. DBnne flfor the 61ZS. any InlocmaUon tn 
tracking down this progiam giaief uUy r«caivied. 
Tel J. MatilMiD no D270 6^2772 

I have back issues 21,29,31.37 63 of AA. and ! also 
have over 2.900 pokes Lastly, doos anyone liave 
any Ameiican Football games, espocialty J^ead 
Coach, thai they aro willing to swap lor pokes, 
back issues, or part with (or a sonstblo pnce'' All 
QieiRteB rtiust be on disk. 
Tel Mark an 0392 644 ZB2 

12 year old male, seeks penpul interested In 
edventurea and venous eottwAifi H ntp offered 
on ingnda 5acit. 
Tel Robart batweait &-Tpm od Ml 6fia &&i.6. 

CFC 4@4 owncj would like help with AA typa'UiB, 
also wants lo buy a Multilace 2 
Ttl Simon on 0332 222001 

Help mal 1 am desperately looking for 
Uifooom games lor CPCfi\2H. nlifoohl 
Romantic RobouTJevoiisliue House iit)o called 
Wriggler - tape oi disk ( reviewed m AA. 

JfldUElry l5S6i 

Tel Nlcbola4 on 0246 267 00ft 



IViay 1991 AMSTflAD JiOTION 



75 




P&BUC DOMA9N 






Caroline Lamb takes her regular look at the 
Public Domain Scene. This month she gets 
round to answering some of your letters and takes 
a look at some pretty^ impressive graphics... 



■ start this month's Free for aU with an apd- 
cgy to Hi Qi you who have taken the trouble 
to wnte to me over the iasi six months and 
have heaid nothing smce, Don't shoot,..! 

I did! not I deltberaieSy sei out lo be rude and 
ignore you aU, but it se«ms that a smaU version 
of the Bermuda tnangle appeared somewhere m 
the journey between AA's sorting oHice and my 
desk. 

A couple of weeks ago a!i the hundreds of 



tetters asd disks that hadS been sent to me over 
the last six months arrived, aJ] m one go. on my 
desk in a massive box, MeecUess lo say, I've 
been ploughing through the ietters ever smoe 
and ru try to catoh up with the lepties over the 
next few issues of AA 

Looking on the bngbi side, at Jeetst I Know 
that there aie lots of people who are reading 
Free forM-l was begjnnmfl to feel dismctly 
ionesome and unloved! 



WHERE TO GO 



• Th« CP/M User Group. 4S Birktecd Road. 
Wimbledan. LtHMktn 5W19 ml. The test CPM user 
group m the UK and ttey have lots and tois pf qual- 
ity PD. Bur>g them a tm quid for a copy ol tlie latest 
rewsletter, 

■ DW So#n«r«, G2 La&C«l(e$ Avtrtje. Wrthernsea, 
Worth Humb^r&ide HLI19 ?EB OW is lt>e sou re* of, 
amoiigs^t olher Ihings., a marvellous WIMP erviron- 
merit d&sklop. as well as an 931 gartuan grab bag of 
olher quality programs. Six ctoirS will |«1 yi!>u a PO 
di^ bulging with stiftware. 
< Penguin soltwart Librsiry. Ruitley House, 2S Hounl 
H&rmon Hoatf, Woking. Sumy. GU22 7UH (04B3 
7i63223|. This is 3 new Library nm by Daw Carter 
which has managed to gather tog^titef a very 
impressive list ol PD piograirs from various 
sources including some programs that Da^e has 
Mrilten hJmself . tt you mnt to p p p pick up a p p p 
penguin disJi phofve Qav^ on Jnd asic him to serKl 
you a copy Of liis ofi« page newsletier . Each 
Penguin disk costs 5Ci|> for a si'ngle side and t1 for 
two sides. If you want Penguin to suippl!^ the disK. 
then bung on another n iw ewy di&Sc you ofdtt. 
' The Public Domain Software Library. Winscombe 
Hous«. Seaoon Road, Cnowborough, Sussei TNe 
1UL. Tel: 0892 5*3298. Send SAE for free C/PM 
calak^u«.< The Pussycat Bulletin Board {V21 , VZ2, 
V23bis and Vt5) on 0^1 23B 03S1 available 24hrs a 
day, is a new bulietin board which deals s^pi^cilically 
with matters CPC. CP/M an>d PCW. There's loads ol 
downloads available and no regisiraUm fee 
re<|uirecl (can't be bad!) 

• Robot PO Librarj'. 2 Trenl Road, Oskhani, Rutland, 
LE13 6HF. Robot has mostly AfllSdO* programs 



wliich include a good range of demos, games artd 
uMiN in its list. Send 4Sp. a blank formatted disk 
and a SAE for some sajnpte programs et if your pre 
of those retirirvg cautious types who consider the 
idea of sending 4Sp off lo an unknown address 
absolutely oulrigeous. you can simply send an SAE 
for a free calali?gu«. Cassettes are also avaiiat^le. 
once again send an SAE for a free catalogue 
< Scull PD Lbtary. A new library run by Alan Scully 
up in sunny Glasgow. Software is available on both 
cassette and disk, ^ni although the iibrary's pfetty 
new, Ittere s already an impressive catalogue ol 
wares. Two cass^ttes-hjll will set you bach 50p * 
stamped SAE + blank cassettes. CI * stamped 
SAE * blank disk wri I get you two sides of software. 
Write 10 Scull PD Library, 9 Barra Wynd. 
Bn»mtarwJs,lr^neKAll1Da 

• TUG 11 0905 7751 St V21/22/22bis^ 8Nt. A bulletin 
board with 3 lively CPC sectipn and a lar^ amount 
of downloadable cQcte. The board operates lor 

^ hours a day (what's this guy doiog for ttte other 
lv>ur?), so you should be able to make contact. 

• UAJG (United Amstrad User Group). €7 Nursery 
Fields. HTTHE, KenI CTZI 4DS Loa<ts of soflwar*, 
Including 44 Typ^rns* And Ihe group provides stuff 
on tape. too. U.SO and an SAE gets you a disk lull 
of sample programs. 

• WACCl UK. 9 South Close, Twickentvam TW2 5JE. 
Telephone 01 893 1090. As well ss bdrtg a publk: 
domain lil>rary. WACCl is a fannne of truly singular 
quality. Sung a quid and a hall to 9 South Clow and 
you'll receive a smaplf issue witti the PO lists 
contained theraln. 



76 



WARP 1 SCOTTY 

OtmoiLSly It's gwag to lake a^ to reply to aU 
this mail but here are a few (pkkies that I've 
grabbed out of ilie box ai random. 

To John Hudson, who wrote to teU me that 
the CP/M User Gioup has not only changed its 
tiame to the C?m and MS-COS Users' Croiip 
but bas ai^o movea to 43 Bit10i>eck Road, 
WimibledOD, LoDdoa SW19 ZNZ. 

Tlianits for the infonttat^om, Joim- As you can 
see I've updated this month's 'Where to go" box 
accordu^ly. 

To Dave Welloch, who asked where he codd 
get a copy of the Printed Circuit Board designer 
program {PCS Draft) that I reviewed a few 
issues ago. lis onjy available from WACCt. 
Dave (See the where to go' tjox.) 

To ian Hoare (the hairy producer of the Cage 
Comnrs ROM), who sent me a very bng letter. 1 
neror said that Public Domain programs won't 
run on 464s. of course they can. as long as they 
are ruimmg the leievant version of C?/M- Keep 
tnnuning the beard Ian. 

Thanks also to Dave Long for wntingi and 
telhng me that the CS/DL PD Library, which I 
mentioned many months ago, has changed, ita 
name to Demon PD and that it can be reached 
at 47 Hilton Avenue. Hall Green. Birmingbam 
BZaOPE 

And finally, a quick sorry' to MIKERO PD 
which sprang up, flourished briefly, and came to 
an untimely end, all withm ilie tine that ihe AA 
verston of the Bermuda triangle was aaive. 

THE UNITED AMSTRAD 
USER GROUP 

Another victim of the pcstal drought wa£ The 
United Amstiad User Group. The good news, for 
464 users. iS thai UAUO can also supply its PD 
software on tape. 

The UAUG has a lai^e selealon of software 
that covers a wide range of CP/M and Amsdos 
programs, AA Type-lnf and cover tape pro- 
gianis. tt also has lots of text files, including the 
Amstrad Act^^n Collection - 'Camef R&news 
l^B-^'. a comprehensive index for Amstrad 
maganties fin Mastedile format,} telephone 
exchanges in alphabetical order, telephone 
codes {enter code to determine Exchange 
name.) STD codes m numerical order and a 
tourist guide of WaJesi 

Apart f^om the programs that I've abeady 
seeri included m other FD libraries, I can't per 
sonaUy review iheir programs because Ive only 
been sent a disk with the UAUO catalogue on n 
['m going to send off five blank disks tomorrow 
because there's some stuff that I've not seen 
yet. 

So It seems that the most aeivsible thing thai 
a CPC/Plus owner oould do this mcnnth is to send 
UAUG a few Manh disks and a good padded 
envelope, enclose soine tsnim postage stanjps 
and a se^-addressed gunmnd-labol and asK for 



AMSTRAD JkCTMON May 1991 



' 



PUBLIC t>OMA 



GET IN TOUCH 

If you art rvRning r Pubtii Odmain 
librariff Wrif* to me here at the 
Amifnd Mtthn otfi<« end t»ll m« 
all aboHf it. H you wont in* to 
r«vl*w tern* of yotir librory's pro> 
gremt (think about the frecjl 
pybliiity) ivnd theni in on a 3~ia«b 
diik and I'll have a loofa. ivf (afi4 
Hb h Q bfggy iUT) <f yow want 
your dish, returned please siribble 
your name and the return oddrei t 
tUorly on the ditk label), not the 
taie label. (Don^l lend me di-$k 
<as««j, they tend to get ioft.l 

To« don't linvo to fao rvnning a 
Poblk Pomoitt library to get in 
touch with me perionollf either. 
Anybody inn writ* \m and toll mo 
about their oifherlencei with ^D 
profTMUv tl<« Ubrarioi that f apply 
them or the back-up lorviio pro- 
vided. 

I'd be etpeiiatiy inltrtsted to 
boar from onyono who has written, 
or pl«ni fo, write • ^nf/mm for the 
Amftrad PD Kono. 



LtSrN'DEX fifstiy (the catalague) vii then what- 
ever ihey caie ia bungi on the ^emairuDg disk 
space If you don't wish to supply disks then 
send a cheque oz PO foi G.50 made payable to 
the Uniied Amstrad Use: Group This will ocvei 
the cost of ihe disk plus postage and packuijg 
ajid TWO sections of the library, then send disk 
requests to: Richard Sergeant. UAUG ?D 
Llbiurtan, 67 Nursery Fields, HYTHE, Kent 
CT21 4D&. 

If you want to have some UAUG softwaie 
sent to ya\i on tape then you only need to send 
four fust dass postage stamps to; Cordon 
WooSisoft, UAUG Tape PD Librarian, 2 
Wreohech dnve, OUey, West Yoihsbire LSZi 
2BR He will send he will send yoo three tapes 
which yoTi cm then copy but the onubtaon is 
ihat you must return them within two weeks, 



NOT ONIY 



Dave Carter has also taken the lirst step in 
becoming a publisher, and produced a. H- 
page, AS formal quarterly catalogue called 
PS News. Not only does it have details of 
the disks you can order trom Penguin 
Sofiware, it also contains News, ComnieDl, 
Competititms. a Software Top-Ten chart 
and free screen -photographs. 

It only coats EOp and in some ways it's 
better value than tlie usual PP 
Newsletters. Send an SA£ [that's A4-&i2ed} 
plus 50p (OK. stick In some more pennies if 
you feel generoiLS). 










t . ii r 




Amiga graphics on tiie GPC! 



Hands up everyone who likes to see high-<|iia]jty 
graphics aiid ai'twork scceenji on rlieit Amstrad? 
Hmmm let's see.- 1 count that sOAiewheire 
between . a bit nwre than 6 and s^li^btly less 
than 31,000. 

01 course, we all know that certain other com- 
puier? that cost a whole hunmingoirs lot more 
than our Amstrads can produce totally hoopy hi- 
res pictures but did you know that you cao get 
something that produces graphics thai are neafty 
as good as 'Ameagre' ones? 

Amiga Graphics is a new disk available bom 
Penguin Software and is produced by David 



Carter. The screens on tliis disk are digitized pic- 
tures froni an Amiga. In some ca^es, David's had 
to enlarge the artist's IO0O Or a title Oit SOOM ot 
the pictures, but dtherwi^ they're n^tiniplfllelf 
unaltered! This disk is Public Domain, wlildl 
means it can l>e Ireely copied ami distributed - 
but if you run your own PD library and are plan- 
ning to include the disk in it, then all David aski 
is that you don't split it up, just supply it as- is. 

There are a total of 49 screens in all - if« 
pretty amazing to cram all those hill screen tiles 
on a disl! which is only supposed to hold 2Xi at 




May 1991 AMSTRAD ACTtON 



n 



PROTYPE - THE RETURN OF ARNOR! 

Did you thfnk Arnor had developed their last CPC product? 



We must admit, it was starting to look that way. But now 
we are pteased to announce a stunning new arrival - 
ProtypB. This provides Protexi w'dh the improved 
printing features that many of you have requested. 

We honestly believe that it is not possible to achieve 
better quality output from a 9 pin printer Than with 
Protype. Just look at the examples below - all printed on 
an elderly Amstrad DMP 2000! 

Protype costs just £30 arvi is available on disc only. It 
works with Protext ROM and disc versions and may aiso 
be used as a stand a) one program. 

5 years after its original release Protext remains 
indisputably the leading CPC word processor. In the 
February 1991 issue. Am strao Action said: 

"Without doubt the most complete word processor 
avaitable for the CPC ..- Protext is very much a 
prvfessional guaJity pn^ram/ 



Amstrad Action speed tests show Protext to be many 
ilmes faster than other programs, for example: 



Replace operation 

Program A - 94 sees 
Progrstm B - 74 sees 
Frofexf - 5 sees 



Delete 1 7k block 



Program A 
Program & 
Protext 



17 sees 

15 sees 

1 sec 



Prices 

Protype £30 

Protext + Protype £45 

Rombo ROM box £20 

ROM Prices 

Protext £25 

Maxam £25 

Prospell £20 



{disc, Protext not required) 

{disc) 

(when at laast one ROM is purchased) 

Promerge Plus £20 

Utopia £20 

Maxam 1 w £20 

BGPL £20 



supports aver 4.0 European tanguages including 
Anglo-Saxon |}daeGea§ToOce(i^ 
Czech 

aaggi t osiJ 



Polish 
Turkish 



a c d' e e 1 nor 
acegT kj ris 



Protype is a typesetting print 
enhancer designed to squeeze 
maodmum quality from tow-tosL 
9 and 24-pin dot matrix 
printers. This 
paragraph shows 
bow Profype can 
work to a right- 
hand margin. fa] 



Liquid^-^ 
Acetic acid (C^jO^) 
Acetone (C3H6O) 
Water^ea (H2O, salts) 



2*21 " 103 
3-90 « 103 



t nu y z 

Z 



Protype (disc onfyl works on : 

o Amstrad (K6128 [+1 

O CFC664 £ MK edqpansion 

CPC464 S, 64K expansion S disc drive 

Uses less than 350 bytes 0* the main 64K, 



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if con tres bandas en d pecho t 

<f faja pectorakastalia t 



This actual-size prirttoot was 
produced in one opeatJOft on 
a 9-pirt printer using Amor's 
Protext and Protype. 



Feeder ttv. [Ml pe ean on heofonun (CM English) 
At n- a their, aii ar n&amh tIrisA Qt^c) 

Fader v^r som Sr i himmelen ISvfedish) 

Svarg^ehi v^dasttina apag^ piydn«ni (Sinhales«) 
Teve mas If, kurs es danguje tijtlHurHn} 

Paler nosier, qui es m C3elis (La (ml 



just soin« of the non-ASCtt symbols: 



© 



£ 



ft 

£ y 



V 



t V * T 

g d D j? 
oe (E f I 



11 

d 



t 

h 





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Wine graphics too-^ 



PROTYPE IS VEfiSATUf: 

• multiple diacritics (occenTs) with any letter { | n 5 A J 

• tabulates proportional text / micro-jastifies spaces 

• 340 i^pi - 216 m resoftition on a 9-pin primer! 

• works witfi ail 9-pin or 24-pin Epson-compalible printers 

• use from Protext, Basic or machine code 

• includes the seven fonts used in this demonstration 

• choice of character designs within a font fpoge or page) 

• ^^P^^script, sub script, underline , \b\ box, ® encircle 

• kerning (^xicing of 'difficult' character pairs i AV ) 



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Amor ZA/ fAAl 6JJ Uncoin Rosr^. Peferborougit P£f SNA. T&i: 07SS 68909 /24 M Fdx: OFSS e/£9S 

AS prlcH 4ncluda VAT. poOag* anH pwiang. Ci«diR cflid erdon aiff ba tj wplc l i nd by (^tum fl* WM. tpoyvig by cfrirqu* ptaa* aOrm 10-14 day! lof ri il wr y, 




Wt;lconie to another four pages of readers let- 
ters, answered by the ed. Rod Lawtoii. Sorry, 
but we can't print all your letters. We usually 
get about four or five times as many as we have space 
to print. Rest assured, though, that even if we don't 
print all your letters, we do read them all„. 

Just a couple of tips if you're thinking about 
dashing off a line - don't say '^please, please, please 
print this letter", because it doesn't make any differ- 
ence (it just makes Rod feel guilty for about 2 
seconds). And don't enck)se an SAE. There's no time, 
unfortunately, for personal replies. If we can help you, 
we'll do so in print. 

If you do want to get your views into print, write to: 
Reactioth Amstrad Actioth Beauford Courts 30 
Monmouth Street, Bathf Avon BAl 2BW, 




Help the console! 

After i#cen;iv piirchasiDg an Amstiad Console 
I bave found \t impossible to acquire a ronipati- 
b!e analogue jaysuck. IBM-compauble 
analiigiie joysticks will 
activate the Fire i3u«on 
mecbanisins through ih? 
aoAlcgtie port bm ncrth i 

Ai^ion or any of its read- 
ers know of a compatible 
analogue loystrch and where 
to acquiie one, oi some sort oi interfats? 

[ dare to thiiik that Amstiad have dropped a 
bit of a clanger by htting the c<lnsole with an 
analogue port and falling to provide a suitable 
joysticlt/iJiterface/iiLto. Did Amstiad just bolt it 
on as an afterthought? 

The second point about the consoSe I would 
UKe to make is the lack of 'original' titles. Does 
Amstrad think that it rs realty gomg to impress 
by repackaging existing CPC soliware, \ e. 
fiatjnan. Operation TliundgiboSl. KiAx etc. by 
mereiy souping it up slightly ~ i.e^. new title 
screen etc - and re-releasing on cartridge for- 
mat? 

I fear that if the quality and avaj]ab>ility ai 
GX4O0O softwate does not improve the console 
will die an early and undeserved death. High 
Street retailers.'chain stores are already reluc- 
tant to stock the console in a maikat already 
dominated by Sega and Mintendo. The lack of 
many 'quality' releases does not help the 
CX4000's cause, 

rm not saying all console games are bad. 
Ocean's Navy SeaSs is a great example of the 



ntactune'^s potenUa). and every release should 
be up to this standard. Gremlin's Bwitchblsde is 
also pretty good 

Dixons aie a prime exaraple of how noi to 
market the oonsole, Their after-sates serwioe 
l^ves much to be desired as th@v ^mm only to 
be interested in the mitta] sale, leaving the sup 

p]y of decent games to the specialist softwiur 
retailers (having saLd that, the computer shop I 

work m refuses to stock CX40O0 games}. 

So come on all you High Street chams/con- 
sDje programmers, give the GX4000 the support 
itne^. 

Edwin Armstrong 
Henbold, Bedford 

Add: r agiee eniiieJy with your points about 
caitiidge avaiSabiJity. The iack of tities in tbB 
shops over Christmas wiS! have had a crip- 
pling ellect on console sales - how many 
fhsup/e am going to buy 9 &>nso}e they can't 
get games Iqi? And to think th^t Amstrsd was 
piDinjsTiig nioDihs before that no iewei than 
I^ games would be avaiiahte on the macbine's 
release! Amstrad even had demos oiaii twelve 
up and miming, so what's happened to the 
production versions is anybody's guess. Not 
surpnsingiy. Amstrad is washing its hBifds of 
the whole affair, tSaming the soflwaie pub- 
lishers for non-AvaJlabiyity of games. Tbey. m 
turn, ars taking a long, hard took at console 
sales before committing ihemseives. The 
whole thing has been a vidoas circle, in the 
midst of all this, the retailers already have a 
wide range ol - successful - other machines to 
(AoQ^e from, and they don't lose anytbing by 
dioppatg th6 new Amsttads. To 017 mind. 



A pat on the back 

[ often read in your magazine (whidi 1 think 
IS great) letters from people who oomplain 
about poor service, or being ripped off by 
mail order companies So t thought that I 
would show the other side of the picture. 

I bomght a Powerplay ioystidi from my 
Socal computer shop last July and had hours 
of sLidc waggling fun until FebiTuary of this 
year, when I found that I kept getting 
zapped because the Fire buttons were not 
working properly. 

I parcelled the joystick up and sent it to 
Powerplay in Oldham at lunctitime on 
Monday morning, residing myself to days of 
heyboard-bashing, when to my amaaemeni, 
first post Thursday morning there was my 
favot»ite waggle stick retumed as good as 
new again. We hear so many moans about 
poor servi(% that I thought I would let your 
readers know that there aie still some good 
companies out there. Well done Powerplay. 

Keith Adie 
(Address unknown) 




In Amyt. 



Amstrad needs to worh hard at restoring 
dealer coniidence and ma in raining links with 
the software industry. Otherwise Uie GX400i} 
could well sink wilfiout trace as the various 
parties concenml ksep blaming everyoner 
else- 

Anaiogtie foysiicl^s hr the CX40OO? It way 
wsil be that your IBM-compatibte 'stick vfUt 
work, but we'll never know until samebodY 
writes some 'analogue' software. We si/spect 
tfiat a game would require speciaJ routines 10 
support analogue control, and currently none 
do- 

Eight steps to success... 

Yippee MM!!!', 1 tlioughl to myself as I read 
through AA66. Why all this excitement, I hear 
you ask? W&E, it's because you're gomg to put a 
covertape on I'he front of my beloved AA. 
You've finally made a move, after a few months 
of not reaEy gomg anywhere. BUT (and this is a 
gigantic BUT J please don't let AA become a 



I 



May 1991 AHMSTRJXD ACTiON 



79 




games magazme, else itll die like the Spectrum 
is doing now. I know games play a big part in 
computais, but you can always have too much 
of a good thing (as my mother says|i, and eveh- 
tuaUy people ge; bored of games and move on 
to frestiei fields, s& heie's the Jame^ NsiH guide 
tfl AA succe^^s, 

1. Don't review crap games-, they're a wa?te of 
space ilets be ruthJessj. Ho one vrill buy a 
gft£ne which scoies &0% i! tliey can get a 
game tike Tumcan or Ibck Dangeious U for 
the same pnce. That lenunds me, is 
Tumcan 11 conung out lor the CPC ? 

2. Keep a good balance between games and 
serious software. 

3. More PD reviews 

4- Stop the sexism. Full stop End of story. 
S. A coiBputsr-related joke coiumn in 

AAHeittioughl Here's one to get you going: 
Have you noticed that ali ihe great computers 

Starr mth an 'A' 
ThsAmigs. best 16-bit 
The Amstrad CPC. best S-bit 
The Apple Mac. best DTP mschine 
The Ate. iwst edacation machine 
The Atari ST.,. welf there's a/ways Lhe ejCDep- 

tion to the ui!e 
i. Increase the stajidends foi Type-ias. some 

of them are really shabby. It's not fair foi 

people wanting to learn. h«caiiEe they'lj 

pick up bad habits. 

7. More machine code features, like many 
other things I'd like to leam. Whatever hap- 
pened to the httle bladt book you were 
gomg to do (the soft 963 rip-off}' 

8. How about buying the rights to the Infocom 
games foi the CPC"? They should be going 
dm cheap, seen as they're not selling them 
any more, it would malie a greet covertape, 
you oould transfer them back to disk With 
the CP/M CLOAD command. 

I Uunh thitt's it,. 

Jaines Neill 
Wakefield 

Rod: OK, wel! here wego... 

1 We review 'crap" games because how are 

the readers going to know they're crap 

otherwise? 

2. Yes, we'll try to. 

3. Yes. Of( then. 

4. Stop the sexism, or stop the letters? 

5. We all laughttt in oat office. We showed it 

to sister mag ST Formal They didn't 
laugh. They wanted your address. 

S. It you think the type-ins due shabby, do 
something about it! We're always on the 
lockout for decent nouunef-.. 

7. A machine- code series? We're working on 
that idea right now. 

B. As far as putting adventures on the cover^ 
tape is concerned, we've got the Balrog on 
the case right now. We're not anxious to 
shell oat Soot to buy rights if we can avoid 
it, Uiough. bat we'll be open to reascntible 
offers. 

Green is greaf! 

I have been using my Amstrad CPC464, with its 
0ieen monitor, since Octobei 1BE4. mainly m 
association with Tasward 464, and have found 
this combination to be very satMactoiy indeed 
(or my puiposes. However, I leaiise that my 



Nothing but praise 
(onil a plug) 

Firstly. I wDuJd like to say that AA is a bril 
liant magazine, as it covers a lot of different 
subjects, and evtiry page is a good read. 
When I first got my 6128, I went out and 
boughl a copy of AA to see the reviews and 
news and stuff, because I wanted to gel 
some good software and i needed a bit of 
guidance. 1 read it from cover to cover and I 
was so impressed 1 bought a load of hack 
issues and decided to buy ii every month. 

Then in November last year my betoved 
Arnie was stolen (Bool Hiss!) The next day, 
I bought AA (Hnoray! Yippee^) and turned 
lo the small ads. I phoned a few numbers 
and quite quickly found a very good deal A 
week later, my new Amie was back on the 
road and, Uianks to AA, I have since bought 
a printer, a se<X)nd disk drive, and opened a 
PD library, (Plug time" Ring 081 392 1372 
for free sample disk and catalogue - end of 
plug.j 

Now 1 hear AA is being unproved I I ;ust 
wish there was some way that disk-only- 
Gwners could get a copy of the c»varta(>e 
programs on difk. I atso ihink thai £2 20 is 
)usl a bit much, but they again everyone's 
bound to think that at the start, aren't they' 
! also have a message to anyone out there 
who has even a small complaint aljout Rod: 
just imagine if AA wasn't being pubhsiietl, 
you'd have to ie!y on certain other maga- 
zines to giva you all the latest news etc. AA 
IS lops! 

Bod: Oooh, that was a bit sneaky the way 
you got that plug in, squeezed in amidst 
all that fianaet! Yoa 'IJ go for. „ 



CPC4&4 won't last for ever, and I am now think- 
ing of a replacem.ent - eithei a CPC464, a 

cpceizeorapcwflzse. 

I understand CPC machines are sUfl avail- 
able, although they seem to be obsolete m 
Edinburgh when I recently made enquines 
there. If they are still around, can the CPC 
machines be supplied with green screen mom^ 
tors? If not, can their colour monitors be made 
to simulate a green screen' 

Ian Farqiiharson 
North Berwick 

Rod: The CPC range has now been superceded 
by the Plus machines. These are essentially 
identical to the old models, except tor a new 
body casing and the addition of a cartridge 
port. 

Vou don t say whether you want a machine 
primarily for word processing, II you do, I 
would have to recommend the PCW825S, 
which comes with the green screen yout^ 
after. 

The new Amstrad Plus models have a new 
paper- white mono screen option. 
Altamalively, the colour screens can be set up 
to give any text and backgroand colour you 
like- However, the colour screens are not as 
oasy {o read a$ tiw mono on^s. 



Too much f rouble? 

On behalf ol disk drivg owners I would ask you 
to put the tape-lo-disk progiam at the start of 
ihe cassette tape and not the end. At the 
moment I have to last-forward the tape and 
then try to find the Stan of the pragiam U ci 
was at the beginning of the t^ie it wciild be 
much simpler. 

Tony Baker, 
Fareham 

Sod: Yes. but surely you only have to find the 
transfer prograin once? After that, all our 
covertape programs will be safely stored on 
disk and you need never use the tape again. U 
we put the transler routim at the start ot the 
tape, people with tape-only machines would 
have to bumbJe their way past it wary single 
lime they wanted to play the games. Now that 
wouldn't be fair, would it? 

Tbose new matKine blues 

5:::i;:i' Chiistmas I have been the proud' owner 
of a 6128 Plus, and am begmmng to think thai T 
was seduced into buymg a computer that is out- 
dated before its even got off the ground. ! was 
attracted by the package, colour monitor, disk 
dnve and cartridge WeU that extra ^K of maia- 
Diy would be useful as weU. wouldn't tP I now 
fmd out that: 

(a) The extra memory is almost never used by 
programs. 

(b) There is vutually nothmg available on i::ai- 
iridge for iJie Plus 

ic) A k>t of the stuff available on disk for the 
CPC is not compatible with the €12S Plus. 
For example. I have two copies ol PinbsB 
Ma0c. because I am pmball cra^y. but. It 
won't run The ajtplanation from our local 
dealer? "Oh dear, not compatible with the 
Plus? Ho, sorry, can't give you a aedit. You 
see It works on qui old S129. but ii people 
have a Plus like you we won't bo aJ;>le to 
shift them." GreatI 

(d| Final ^raw. AA is going to chaige me 60p 
more each month for a tnagaziiie with a 
covettape I cannot use. Anftme want to 
swep a wonderful new €128 Plus for a nice 
old CPC^ns^ Or bener still, t think I might 
desert Amsirad altogethei and get an 
Amiga, b^it then I'd lose my ooiour monitor. 
Aaaagh - my iiead hurtsi And all it really 
needs is for Amstrad to get their act 
togetber and give the software backup 
required by the produaion of a new bne 

Jill Denton 
St Peter, Jersey 

flod; Hima... let's take yoat points in Cuni; 

fa) Firstly, it's not true that the Sl28's extra 
memory is 'almost never' used. Ailhough 
most games are designed for the 64K 
macAJiies (to cater for the lowest oommon 
denomioatOT and cat overheads) many - if 
not most - serious' programs lely on the 
full I26K ot memory. 

tb) tVs true that there are fewer cartridge 
games avaiiablo currently than expected, 
but the number is steadily growing and 
we hope there will be a decent total by 
tbe end of Uus year. 



SO 



AMSTRAD ACTi€>N May 1991 




(0 Some gsittes don t mi\ on ch^ S128 Plus, 
Sony we didn't make it clear ttiat PinbaU 
MAgic didii 't- As for jfOur tetsUer wfusing 
to eKChange your game, that's quite outiR- 
gsous. Any product must be fit tor the 
purpose it was bought tot. and it the muti 
fn the shop sold you s product that isn't 
it's his iookoiit. He shautd defiiiitety 
exchange in for you. Untonanateiy, 
Loriae! doesn't have an office in this 
DOantry that you couSd get in touch witii. 

(d) WeU, yes, AA is going up Co E220 but you 
are getting a lot more for yoar money. Not 
least bec&use we're negotiating specie} 
deals with cenndge manutactursfs to get 
many pounds oti their prices lor our read- 
ers. This wiit help you get hold of more 
cartridge games And ^ou'JJ also be saving 
two or thiee times Che entire cover price of 
the magazine when you dof We know tb&t 
612S owners can't use the coveitape, 
unless they have a iiiend who can transfer 
ii for them. The casts involved in produc- 
ing disk versions woaid be many titaes 
greater, but it's something we're giving 
some thought to even row. 

To upgrade or nof to 
upgrade? 

I have lust bciiight your magazme for the firsi 
time in about & yeai. Ii ta with great pleasure 
that I note most of the format has rsmained the 
same as t had previausly iiked your magazsne a. 
great deal. In the past I have struggled to obtain 
a cspv due to moving abound on a frequent 
basis. 

In my uavels 1 have encouniered and played 
on various IG-bit machines and desrred to pur- 
chase such Euicuries, but on my return home and 
switching on my trusty CPC6J2S I hnd it does 
everything I want it to, as I have never Ijeen a 
9T*at lover of arcade games (the One area that 
16-bit outstrips 8 -bit), My only eiuestion along 
this L:ne is, is it worth my while upgrading to a 
61 2S Plus, as I have not s^n orie of the treasts 
ID action? 

As to Martin WiUiams' question in ^4&6 on 
serious software. I fiud it is best to ring lound 
the sHsftware houses and ask what is availible 
as I have found not only is it normally cheaper 
but there is a lot of softwaie we do not get to 
bear about, as adverts and shops tend to push 
oniy popular' items, iJi particular, CCS have 
be«n very helpful with phone queries (and 
cheap speciaj offers) Also. Is it posstble you 
might run a series on hardwaie piojects again? 1 
fe«l most of the 'add-ons' we can buy can be 
made cheapei at home That's aJl for now. Keep 
up the good woiK! 

Biuce Clarfleld 
Northampton 

Rod, There is still quite s lot of oid, but still 
good, software out there thM meil ordms sup- 
pliers k60p m stock - asualSy at very attractive 
prices. There's reaiiy nothing for it but to shop 
- and ask - around. In some ways, same of the 
early 'serious' Amstrad software is stilt the 
best! 

We have run hardware projects now and 
again la the past, but it's quite rare tor some- 
one to corns up wftAi an Idea that's cheap to 



carry out (in case it goes wrong,!, relatively 
foolproof (in case it makes your machine go 
wrong!} andactualiy useful at the end of it. 

Should you upgrade to a Pius? Weti, artless 
your old machine is falling to bits, and unless 
you meen to want to piay the new console 
games coming out, pwbabiy not. 



LETTEBS 



Ihe thoughts of 
Cfaairman Rod 

I am writing to you about nay school Modein 
Studies project. My group and I would lifee to 
ash you some questions about computers and 
computmg. 



Grumbles about graphics 



1 ant writing to complain about the state of 
graphics on the Amstrad today. Take (or 
example the game Mystical that scoies 94% 
for graphics - tltese being mode and very 
blocl^ - tlien take another game called 
Coidea Axe, scoring S3% - t]|iw« «iUo being 
modtfl «ad «ery blocJty, BoA flf fllwe games 
utiliso mode because it can have sixteen 
colours on-screen at any one time. 

My use of these two games as examples 
is because they would have looked far better 
if they had been written witJi mode 1 graph- 
ics, although this mode can only have four 
colours on-Bcreen, In my opinion, there is 
never going to be a good looking reptaoe- 
meat (or clear, sharp graphics and over my 
many years of games experience, graphics 
have gone bom fair]y good mode 1 to 
extraoielY bughable mode 0. 

My brother and one of his (riends each 
have a Spectrum +2A, a a few years ago they 
said that Amstrad graphics were of a far twt- 
ter quality than the Spectrum equivalents - 
but now their opinion is completely oppo- 
site, and ] feel extremely cheated as games 
prices have gone up but their quality tiaB hit 
rock bottom. I have now even begun to 
agree with them about the graphics, which a 
few monthB ago I would not. 

All of this has now put me In the mind of 
upgrading my computer to one of the 16-bits 
and the fact that nearly all of the reviews of 
the GX^Oao console games have had in them 
the statement tliat they are 'nearly as good 
ui the 16-bits' has ha^tenad this. Put it this 
way: spend C3O0 on a IG-bit compaler and 
i2b per full-pnce game and £1(0 on a budlgec 
title, or spend C43D on a 6128 Plus and £25 
per cartridge game and ElO on a full-price 
title. The 16-bit does not have a monitor, but 
it is still better on all accounts and the 
games are more available. Yet buy an 



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Amstrad and you'll be E130 worse off and 
have inferior grapbics plus you cannot play 
C«$«ette software, cutting off at least 50% o( 
the mar)<el. The IG-bit also has bettei-qual- 
ity games than the Amstrads and more 
original games such as Battle Chess and 
Wittg Leaefef, wbich will never be converted 
to any ol the S-bits, let alone the Amstrad. 

Stephen Troup 
King's Lynn 

Rod: 1 agree generally with what you sey 
about the merits of mode ] versus mode 0, 
though I can't agree with you about Mystics! 
- f think it looks really good. On the whole, 
though, 1 teel that too manysoHware houses 
JTtrvggfe witlj mode graphics when they 
ootiid do a much better job with the higher- 
res four-colour mode. Gremlin Graphics has 
been doing a tot of mode i games recently, 
and I think they look really good. The loss of 
colour, in my opinion, is minor compared to 
the abtUty to actually make out what you're 
looking atl 

As for comparing tiie SUS Plus with 16- 
bit machines, you make a pretty good case, 
but for one or two facts. First of all, the 6128 
Plus is not curreritly selling tor £430. 
Following prw cuts, yoti should be aWa to 
buy them for CSO less than that In the High 
Street, Ijringjng the pric^ down to around 
£3S&. Secondly, incfuded in that price is, as 
FPU po^nr out, a monitor. To make a fair com- 
pulson you should add the price of a 
monjtor or a portable TV ff dot^t yoa'll be 
very popular using Ihe Uilly in the lounge elt 
the time} to the cost of a 16-bit machine, 
mmiy, when you say '16-bit', you really 
mean the Atari ST, don't you? Even if you 
take advantage of Commodore's curnejit 
ande-in deal, an Amiga will still cost you 
£330. Thar will go back to £400 once the offer 
■ ends or if you dont have an old 
computer to trade in. The ST fa a 
decent enough machine, but it's 
not in the same oIbss as the 
Amiga. 
^ There is another option. 

E^ What about the 464 Plus A 

colour version of this marine 
will cost you around £280 and 
let you piey high-quality £2S 
cartridge pame^, normal £10 
full-price tape £o/livare and £3 
budget games* How that's not 
bad, is it? OK, so you don't get a 
disk drive, bat you do get a ded- 
roufi icated games machine that 

covers the entire price £rp«ctrum. 



May 1991 AMSTRAD ACTtOM 



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1. Do yau thiiik there is enough vanatioii 

between the different tjfpes of softwaxe 
avaitalJle' 
i. Do you use a computer for a senous pur- 
pose - J so. which? 

3. Do you have a favounie^east favourite 
game - if yes, which? 

4. Please could you tell us the most populai 
game nationwide last yeai'^ 

David Main 
Eajt Kilbride 

Sod; You don't say wbetber yoa're iaterest^ 

in just the CPC, Davjtf, or computers in §9n- 

9ml AssMmim y^^ ai^i coiiiput^r? in 

g9a9n\, here ws go: 

i. Theie's a hags range ot computer soft- 
ware Qut rliere rtwiay wilb a huge range ot 
parposes. Wliatevei you need to do, 
there's a caaiputer/'pTogTam lo do it, or al 
hast sotlware you can adapt tor the pur 
pose. 

1 We use Amstrads tor writing al! our aiti- 
ck$ on. find Apple Madntosttes tot faying 
oirt aur psgss before ili^jr go iq ihe print- 
ers. 

3. One of om fawourite games of last y^r 
was tlie piatform puzz/« garne Rick 
Dangerous H. The year before, \here was 
the tactics! wargame ssmulaior Laser 
Sqvad. which we reckon is probably the 
finest game ever wiftten for any marimei 
We're not so keen on hoiiii? corapater ver- 



sions ot aicsde games, since heme com- 
puters are nowhere near as powerful as 
arcade macltines. aad the games teild not 
to look as good or p}a y ss Wf^JJ'. 
4. 'n>& most popular game iast year was 
almost certainly Teenage Mutant Hero 
Turtles Iiom Miirorsott. 

Do 16-bits rule? 

I was interested -.v. n-sd "Caftridge Cnsis' in 
j^msoefle, AA66. i am rat only finding difficulty 
in obtain irt^ caitndges (the only outlet seems to 
he Di3iOas] but al&o in gettirig games on disk. 
My local oomputer shop announced that Ihey 
aie no langer slocking Anu>iiad: disks, and {he 
laigei leiaHeEs, Uhe W H Smitl) and Boots do next 
seem to want to know about them either It 
begins to looh like a ooiis^puacy on the pAtt of 
AiQiga\ST stockists to lun down Anmrad m 
favour of the moie expensive (and more prof- 
liable?) 16-bu njaclJines and games. My son is 
thoroughly disentrhantedi with Amstmd now, 
havuig saved up for some considerable tune to 
buy a 6126 Plus, and is beginning to wish he 
bad bought an Atari ST. d^pite the \aa that he 
would then be unable to play all the games he 
has collected for his 4&4 over the yeais. Am 1 
imagining things, oi is theie perhaps a case for 
suggesting that the Monopolies Coinjni$$ion 
should investigatei 

Cenamly it is up to us Amstiad users to 
Keep on at (he retailers uniH they get the m^- 



sage that there is. most deHnitely a market for 
Am^ad games on disk, and if ihe^ don't realise 
It then they will lose out. They may not under- 
stand the advantages of Amstiad machines over 
the le-bit brigade, but they will understand 
Piofit (with a capital P|. So gel out ih^e and giet 
agitating, all you Amstiad u$et$) 

Now to turn to my next hobby horse, 1 note 
that tbeie is quite a lot of inteiest ui PD 
hbraiies, and 1 am told that y^ can get 'free' PD 
software from Bulletin Boa(d$. True, you don't 
pay the BBs for the soft wd re, but someone has 
to pay for the phone call, and that someone 
might noi be fit aU happy if they find that thetr 
dfsptmg have been making 25-minute peak 
penod phone rails to get free softwaie 

Barry Marsden 
Slough 

Rod; S you've managed lo buy cartridges from 
Dixons. then you've done better than w&havg'. 
Your best bet tot cartridge so/tware is proba- 
bly the nnaffer iatfependejiit computer 
retailers - or you can huy the things fwm mast 
Older compaiues, with the edvsniage ot lower 
prices. As tor Aatstrad owners having a po at 
retailers to get them to stoc* Amsti^il soft- 
ware, fm all for it.' 

You can't download ibufJetin board soft- 
ware wfithotir cpirghing up ro BT. bur you can't 
get it by post without paying postage. And 
anyone wtio buys iheir offspring a modem and 
leaves ihem both Lrnallendedmuft be barmy! 



Maintaining standards 



1 see with tnt^rest that you are now producing a 

covertape with each issue. As a long-standing 
subscnber (siflce AA!6) I am worried thai as a 
result the contents of the maganne wUJ suffer 
Ui balance the additional oosC~ I realise that 
most of your re<3d.ei5 are a good deal younger 
than my 34 year^ and so are more interested in 
'freebies'. film licence games (alt rubbish except 
Batirzan} and charts. But please do not forget 
the rest of us, for we are the 'long-term' users of 
CPCs and not aS 'faShion-Su^ceptible' as the 
youngsrtera who will probably change their CPC 
for an Amari SOOODK with jet speed joystick and 
go^fastei stripes as soon as they have saved up 
enough pocket money 

My gripes with the cantent Of the magaJine 
are few, but here they are nonetheless; 

Typs-ins'r mote mteresttng ones, please. The 
best one ever printed, was the tracking of two 
'planets' with variable mass and gravity, with 
jjoads of permutations and some changes to the 
original program This game has ooeupied hours 
of my time. 

Adventuring, keep it up, especially the 
clues. Do not aUow this column to falter! 

Colour: not too much, it offends the eye. The 
magazine is meant to be lead, not used as a 
backdrop for a house party: AJso, get nd of that 
hideous new cartoon over the Second Opinion 
in the game reviews. 

Repeals: just like the TV. Over and over 
again people write in with the same queries. I 
reahse that some people may have only just 
started buying youi magazine, but it makes 



lediOLis reading for the rest of u& Also, the 
majority of these repeated questions can he 
answered if people bother to lead 
the manual, acUttediy not a 
good plot iJut tlie char- 
acters are well 
defined. 

Finally, 
some advice 
for other CPC' 
ers, MiKlems, 
Micronel and 
Domms in general 
are very bonng, so 
don't bother with 
them. Get into MIDI 
its great tun, ajid vou 
can sound like 803 State 
within minutes (if yoti 
want), I recommend 
Foundation's step sequencer 
and Yamaha's FSS-680 key 
board. Lastly, in spite of the 
advert, a Multiface is essential 
for games playing. With one of 
these and the Insider you can fin 
i5h any game do maDer what. 

J Treadgold 
Laimton, Oxon 

Rod; The covertape will make no dif- 
ierence to the contents of (he magazine 
whatsoever, you will be pleased to learn 
Type-ins? Well, we try to pick the moft intef- 




estiiig' for everybody, bat ladging by jwur 
favourrte one. yoar tastes are a little oft 
the beaten tiackf There is iiq way the 
Balnog will let the adventure coioma 
faiterf He's always pboaing me up and 
asking tor more pages. As tor 
colour,., well I reckon you're in a 
minority oi one. Everyone else 
wants as much colour as possible. 
And ii you think Paul Morgan's 
cvlour pages are wild, yoa 
should see his T-shirts. 
Honestly, we've all started 
wearing dark glasses, ■ 
Finally, yoar comments 
abdirf repeats, t can 
uadeistand long-stand- 
ing readers getting fed 
up with the same old 
questions, but I can 
only suggest a little 
patience. Lots of 
OUT aewer read- 
ers have 
trouble with 
the basics, and 
the Amstrad mairuaf 
i^n't the i?e5t in the world. It's 
like anything else - onoe you've 
learnt it, you can't understand the problem. 
I wasn't sure about leaving in your bit 
about ^mms, I think i'lt get a deluge of asm- 
plaims about that.. 'Dear AA. I think comnu 
is interesting for 2 1 £ riea5<>iu. Fitstly.. . AA 



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lead ooi]n«ctiiig our Plus In oui frame- 
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moped and btdke bus anMe. Oh. and the 
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PriE*t fq|«r«l 

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Honestly,, we run so many brilliant 
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takes up fflMt of AMlstthoaghtl 

Is there anyone out there who's 
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Bif Dkk Chiim (*Att6} 

...OK, thanR you. you can slop snig- 
genng now (tliat's the last time we let 
Adam ihmk up the «3mpo names). 

Theie were ten lucky wimaers ftg 
this one. each receivmg a Dick Tra<:y 
T-shirt and Dick Tracy mug. Wow! 
Check to see if your name is here: 

Costas Topaltas. Greece; John Kelly, 
fenrith; Aichie Fulton, Brae; Matthew 
Wamaciu Sudbury; Keith McDonald, 
Eimemuii; Paul Finch, Lncoln; Aaion 

Walke:, Bristol; Thomas Niool, 
M^iisGliSine; Jeffrey Hinde. London; 
Alexander Paiker, Bristol, 

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Noithwich; lam Jones. CasUe 
Bromwich: Terry Leese Chsldleton: 
Munay Robertson. Orpington: S. M 
Weavet 

TbinI prize winners: Natasha Bithall. 
Newcastle' under- Lyne:. Simon Dunn, 
Hartlepool: R. B. Edwards, Solihull, 
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Luton; Francis ScauHaiia. Brussels; 
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